1411-10-16, Westminster
Commission during pleasure to Thomas Sutton and William Roscelyn to levy and collect in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull and in all adjacent ports and places, in person and not by deputy, after inspection of the wares, the subsidy which was granted to the king in the last Parliament, held at Westminster, for two years from Michaelmas 11 Henry IV, to wit, 3s. on every tun of wine for import and export (the king's prise only excepted) and 12d. in the pound of silver on all wares for import and export (except wools, hides and woolfells, and wine, and except every kind of corn and flour and fresh fish and beasts for export, and ale for export for the victualling of Calais by the men of Baudessey, Faltenham and Alderton upon Gosford) ; and to answer at the Exchequer for the moneys forthcoming. By bill of the treasurer.
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