1404-10-29, Coventry

Commission to John Cholsey and Thomas Symond to levy and collect in the port of Chichester, in person according to the form of the statutes without substituting any deputy or lieutenant, under the penalty contained in the said statutes, the subsidy on wools, hides and woolfells, which was granted to the king in his Parliament, 4 Henry IV, especially for the defence of the realm in consideration of the wars in Scotland, the rebellion in Wales and the safe-guarding of the sea and the marches of Calais and Aquitaine and the land of Ireland, to take the same from Michaelmas 3 Henry IV for three years, to wit, on each sack of wool 50s. from denizens and 60s. from aliens, on every 240 woolfells the like amounts, and on each last of hides 100s. from denizens and 8 marks from aliens ; and to keep the coket seal in the said port ; answering at the Exchequer for the moneys forthcoming. By bill of the treasurer.