1324-01-10, Worcester

Order to William de Weston, escheator in the counties of Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and the city of London, to take into the king's hand the lands late of John de Benstede, deceased, tenant in chief, Commission to Thomas de Frisco Marisco and Thomas Daulyn to collect the ancient and new customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne and in every place thence by the seacoast to Berwick upon Tweed, during pleasure, and to keep one part of the coket seal, so that they answer at the Exchequer for the money arising therefrom ; and to substitute others in their place for whom they will answer, where they cannot attend hereto. By bill of the Exchequer.