24 January 1373
Westminster

Commission to John Brounyng and Thomas Hathewy, to levy in the county of Gloucester the fifteenth and tenth for one year granted in the Parliament convoked at Westminster on the morrow of All Souls last in aid of the necessary expenses for the furtherance of the king's wars and the defence of the realm, to wit, as great a sum as was levied in the last such grant, and no more, so that they answer for moieties thereof at the Purification next and Whitsun following at the Exchequer or elsewhere, as appointed by the king; and order to them to go from town to town and from place to place, and to summon before them two men and the reeve from each town, and the mayor and bailiffs and four men from each city and borough, enjoining on them that they cause the same to be levied and delivered to the commissioners by one or two men of each of the said towns, cities and boroughs, or else to levy the same from them themselves; and order to the earls, barons, knights, freemen and the whole commonalty of the county, and to the bailiffs and commonalties of cities, towns and boroughs, and to the sheriff, to be intendant, and to the sheriff to distrain with the commissioners those who refuse to pay; in the room of John Clifford, whom the king has thought fit to remove utterly from such levying because he still owes the king great sums of money of the issues of the county from the time when he was sheriff thereof, which sums he has not yet levied from his debtors, so that he cannot fittingly attend at one and the same time to the levying of the tenth and fifteenth and the levying of the said sums.

 
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Source: Public Record Office
Title: Fine Roll 46 Edward III m. 6