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And whereas some of the aforesaid merchants deal in other merchandise as
avoir-du-pois and other fine goods, such as cloths of Tars, silk,
cendals and other diverse wares, and horses also and other animals, corn
and other goods and merchandise which cannot easily be put at a fixed
custom, the same merchants have granted to give us and our heirs on each
pound of silver of the estimation or value of such goods and
merchandise, by what name soever they be known, 3d. in the pound at the
entry of those goods and merchandise into our realm and power aforesaid
within fifteen days after such goods and merchandise shall have been
brought into our realm and power and there unladen or sold; and likewise
3d. on each pound of silver at the export of any such goods and
merchandise bought in our realm and power aforesaid, beyond the ancient
customs before given to us or others; and touching the value and
estimation of such goods and merchandise whereon 3d. on each pound of
silver, as is aforesaid, are to be paid, credit shall be given to them
by the letters which they shall show from their lords or fellows, and if
they have no letters, it shall stand in this behalf by the oaths of the
merchants, if they be present, or of their yeomen in the absence of the
same merchants. It shall be lawful, moreover, for the fellows of the
fellowship of the merchants aforesaid to sell wools within our realm and
power aforesaid to other their fellows, and likewise to buy from the
same without payment of custom, so, nevertheless, that the said wools
come not to such hands that we be defrauded of the custom due to us.
And furthermore it is to be known that after the said merchants shall
have once paid in the form aforesaid in one place within our realm and
power the custom above granted to us for their merchandise, and have
their warrant thereof, they shall be free and quit in all other places
within our realm and power aforesaid of payment of such custom for the
same merchandise or wares by the same warrant, whether such merchandise
remain within our realm and power or be carried without, except wines
which shall in no wise be taken out of our realm and power aforesaid
without our will and license, as is aforesaid. And we will, and for us
and our heirs we grant that no exaction, prise or prest or any other
charge be in any wise imposed on the persons of the merchants aforesaid,
their merchandise or goods, against the form expressed and granted
above. These witnesses:--the venerable fathers, Robert, archbishop of
Canterbury, primate of all England, Walter, bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, Humphrey de Bohun, earl of
Hereford and Essex and constable of England, Aymer de Valencia, Geoffrey
de Geynvill, Hugh le Despenser, Walter de Bello Campo, steward of our
household, Robert de Bures and others. Given by our hand at Windsor, 1
February in the 31st year of our reign.
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