1376-10-13, Havering Atte Bower

To Richard Sergeaux steward of all the lands and lordships in Cornwall and Devon which were of Edward prince of Wales etc., and to Ralph Trenewyth receiver there specially appointed by the king. Order to deliver in dower to Joan who was wife of the said prince, or to the receiver by her now appointed, a third part of all moneys and profits arising from the stannary and stampage of tin in Cornwall and Devon since the prince's death, suffering a third part thereof henceforward to be paid by the hands of merchants and others who have tin or of others whatsoever to her said receiver and to other receivers by her appointed hereafter, even as the said Ralph shall take the remaining two thirds thereof, so that no tin there stamped shall be delivered to merchants or others but in the form hereinafter mentioned, and that the stamping thereof shall be done as well by the said steward and Ralph as by the steward and receiver of the princess for the time being or their deputies, if they will be present ; as (among other things) the king by letters patent has assigned to her as her dower of the profits of the stannary and stampage of tin one third of the moneys and profits aforesaid since the prince's death as well of tin stamped as not stamped and for that cause forfeit to the king or other lords of Cornwall, as fully as the dukes or lords of Cornwall for the time being who have or by law might have such stampage or forfeiture shall take the same, to be paid by merchants or others who have tin to a receiver now or hereafter by her appointed as the prince's receivers used to levy and take the same, and as the receivers of the king or other lords who have the remaining two thirds do or shall do, so that no tin there stamped shall be delivered to merchants or others until she shall have like security for default of payment of the portion to her due as shall be made according to custom to the king and other lords for those two thirds, willing that such stamping be done as well by the ministers of the king and such other lords as by the steward and receiver of the princess or their deputies for the time being, if they will be present. By K. upon the like information.