1304-05-01, Stirling

Mandate to Bertus Penuchius, Stoldus de Friscobaldis, Coppus Cotenne _ and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Friscobaldi of Florence, on pain of forfeiture of all debts that the king owes them, to cause to be paid without cavil, before a fortnight after Holy Trinity, to John de Listowe, citizen of Bayonne, appointed by the citizens of Bayonne to distribute amongst them what the king owes them, 2,500 marks (found after account being made at the Exchequer to be the amount due to them by letters patent of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, late lieutenant in the duchy), out of the issues of the custom on wool, hides and wool-fells in the realm of England and the land of Ireland which the king heretofore committed to them, the king having promised the citizens of Bayonne that they shall be paid by that date. 17.