1442-03-29, Westminster

Commission in like terms [p. 216 above] to Henry May, merchaunt, Henry Cardigan alias Cadigan, Thomas Clyve, marchaunt, William Warde, mercer, John Leynell and John Gorney, brewer, to levy and collect the said subsidy in the town and suburbs of Bristol and in the precinct of the same ; excepting the sum of 23/. 15d. to be distributed, as above, by the abbot of St. Augustine, Bristol, and by Thomas Yonge and John Sharpe, the burgesses and knights for the said town in the said Parliament, or by any two of them; and order to the commissioners to go in person from parish to parish and from place to place within the said town, suburbs and precincts, cause to come before them the mayor and sheriff of the town and four or six of the most discreet and upright men of the town, suburbs and precinct, and have the money levied by their advice. Mittitur pro prima parte originalis in extractis usque huc.