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13 HENRY III (28 October 1228–27 October 1229)
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14 March. Winchester. To the constable of the Tower of London . The king has committed his exchanges of London and Canterbury, with the dies and other appurtenances, to his beloved and faithful Richard Reinger, citizen of London , with £1420 8d. which he is to receive with the same exchange by the hand of Alexander of Dorset in order to do the king’s business, to be held for 700 m. a year, which is to be rendered to the king for four years from Mid-Lent in the thirteenth year, so that the aforesaid £1420 8d. are to be saved for the king at the end of the aforesaid four years, and Richard is to give the king surety and find safe pledges for keeping the exchange safely in the meantime according to the assize of the exchange, and that he will answer to the king at the end of the aforesaid term both for the £700 a year and the other monies to be received with the aforesaid exchange. Order to receive security from Richard in the king’s place for keeping the exchange safely according to the assize of the exchange. He is to cause the names of those who, at Richard’s petition, will wish to be his pledges for rendering the aforesaid 700 m. each year and the other monies to the king at the end of the aforesaid term, as aforesaid, to be recorded, and to cause the king to know them. The king has ordered Alexander of Dorset that, once the constable has received security from Richard for keeping the exchange safely according to the assize of the exchange, as aforesaid, then he is to cause him to have the exchange with its appurtenances without delay or excuse at his command, so that the king will incur no damage from the aforesaid exchange by default of the same. |