1474-03-02, Westminster

Commission to William Rosse, esquire, to take carpenters called whelers and cartwrightes and other carpenters, joiners, stonecutters, smiths, plumbers, shippewrightes, coupers, sawyers, flecchers, chariotmen, horsharneys makers and other workmen within the realm of England and the town and marches of Calais and elsewhere under the king's obedience for the works of the king's ordnance, and bombards, cannons, culverins, fowelers, serpentynes, and other cannon, powder, sulphur, saltpetre, stone, iron, lead and other necessaries, crossbows and bolts for them, bows, arrows, arrowtymbre, bowestaves, bowestrynges, billes, axes, langedebefes, lances, gleyves, hammers, armaments of war, oaks, elms, ashes, beeches, alder, birch, holm and other timber, tanned leder and calveskynnes and other necessaries for the ordnance, and all ships and vessels of 16 tons and over and masters and mariners for them. By K.