1349-08-20, Westminster demand

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the made upon John bishop of Carlisle for the sums received by him the king for the wages of himself and his men staying upon the of Scotland, as he has besought the king to discharge him of the exacted of him in recompence for the wages of himself and his men, in the king's service, as he was charged in full parliament to set to Scotland in the king's first passage to those parts, wherefore he forty men at arms and fifty hobelers and archers for a year, and has received nothing from the king for their wages except for nine and from that time forward he has stayed upon the march of every year, in defence of England, with fifty or forty men at arms as many hobelers and archers, and he has received no payment for and his men, beyond the said wages for nine weeks, except once of 14s. 4d, made by Henry de Percy and Ralph de Nevill, by reason of commission in the 14th year of the reign, upon the ninth of sheaves, and fleeces in co. Cumberland, and again, of 4221. 19s. by the hands Thomas de Berewyk and his fellows, which sums, although they do not to the third penny of those wages, as the bishop asserts, are of him as a prest by summons of the exchequer. By p.s [20576.]