Indenture for Purchase of Wool

350. INDENTURE FOR PURCHASE OF WOOL.

12 September 1478.

     This document, like the last, has to do with Robert Warner. It is interesting
for its illustration of the wool trade, and no doubt gives the customary form of
agreement between the London wool-merchant and the country sheep-
farmer. In No. 159 we have the complementary document (though relating
to a different transaction) wherein shortly before Candlemas, 1476, Richard
Gardener and John Elys acknowledge the receipt from Warner of wool, which
had probably been purchased under a similar Indenture in the previous
autumn. One margin of the Indenture has been injured, but the missing
words can be restored [in brackets] with tolerable certainty. From Chancery
Misc., 37, iv. 62.

     [This Indenture] made the xij day of September in the xviij
yere of the regne of Kynge Edward the iiij^th bitwene John Elys,
Citezein and mercer of London, on that oon partie, and Robert
Warner of Watlyngton [in the Countie of] Oxford, wolman, on that
other partie, Witnesseth that the seid Robert the day and yere
aforeseid hath bargayned and solde unto the seid John xxv sakkes
woll called yonge Cotteswold and [the same a]vowyth good mar-
chaunt and of sufficient pakkyng and true wyndynge, wherof xx
sakkes shulbe fyne woll and the v sakkes residue therof shulbe
middell woll, and the same [woll shulbe pa]kked and wynded at
the dwellingplace of the seid Robert in Watlyngton aforseid by
an indifferent persone of the ffeliship of Wolpakkers of London
therto by the seid John [to be] assigned, and immediatly after
that the seid XXV sakkes woll be so pakked and wynded the same
Robert or his executours, or assignes shul delivre or do to be delivred
to the seid [John or his] assignes 1. fleses fyne woll, good and mar-
chaunt. And the seid Robert graunteth by these presentes that
he or his assignes upon resonable wamyng to him or them made
by the seide [John or his] assignes shul seurly and savely convey
and carye all the seid xxv sakkes and 1. fleses woll, or suche part
or parcelles of them as the seid John, his executours or assignes
[shul se]nde fore, bitwene the day of the date of these presentes
and the ffeste of the Purification of our lady nowe next for to come
from Watlyngton aboveseid unto the [Leden]hall¹ in London the
seid xxv sakkes woll, at the Kynges Beem there after the usage
and custume of the same place thenne to be weied, and there and
[then as] wele the same xxv sakkes as the seid I. fleses woll savely
and surely shull delivere, or do to be delivered to the seid John or
to his assignes to the propre use [and behoof] of the same John:
and over that the seid Robert graunteth by these presentes that
thenne and there the same Robert shull delivre or do to be delivred
to the seid [John or] his assignes overe and beside the seid xxv
sakkes and I. fleses wolle, xxv nailles² fyne woll, good and mar-
chaunt, at the Beem aboveseid after the weight there accustomed to
[the use] of the seid John: ffor the whiche seid xxv sakkes, I. fleses
and XXV nailles woll in maner and fourme aforseid to be delivered
by the seid Robert or his assignes to the seid John [or his] assignes
the same John shull pay or do to be paide to the said Robert, or
to his executours or assignes, cxl. li. of lawfull money of Englond,
wherof the seide [Robert know]lecheth him to have receyved of
the seid John the day of the date of these presentes lxxxj li. xvij s.,
and the Residue of the same cxl.li. the seid John shull [pay or do to]
be paide [unto] the seid Robert or to his executours or assignes
withynne a day next suyng after that all the forseid Wolles be
delivred at the Beem aboveseid. [And the] seid partyes to these
indentures chaungeably have sette there seales the xij day of
September and xviij yere aboveseid.

[The seals are lost.]

     ¹ The Leadenhall was appointed for the tronage or weighing of wool in
1463. Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward IV., i. 285.
     ² A nail was eight pounds.                                                                    

350. INDENTURE FOR PURCHASE OF WOOL.

12 September 1478.

     This document, like the last, has to do with Robert Warner. It is interesting
for its illustration of the wool trade, and no doubt gives the customary form of
agreement between the London wool-merchant and the country sheep-
farmer. In No. 159 we have the complementary document (though relating
to a different transaction) wherein shortly before Candlemas, 1476, Richard
Gardener and John Elys acknowledge the receipt from Warner of wool, which
had probably been purchased under a similar Indenture in the previous
autumn. One margin of the Indenture has been injured, but the missing
words can be restored [in brackets] with tolerable certainty. From Chancery
Misc., 37, iv. 62.

     [This Indenture] made the xij day of September in the xviij
yere of the regne of Kynge Edward the iiij^th bitwene John Elys,
Citezein and mercer of London, on that oon partie, and Robert
Warner of Watlyngton [in the Countie of] Oxford, wolman, on that
other partie, Witnesseth that the seid Robert the day and yere
aforeseid hath bargayned and solde unto the seid John xxv sakkes
woll called yonge Cotteswold and [the same a]vowyth good mar-
chaunt and of sufficient pakkyng and true wyndynge, wherof xx
sakkes shulbe fyne woll and the v sakkes residue therof shulbe
middell woll, and the same [woll shulbe pa]kked and wynded at
the dwellingplace of the seid Robert in Watlyngton aforseid by
an indifferent persone of the ffeliship of Wolpakkers of London,
therto by the seid John [to be] assigned, and immediatly after
that the seid xxv sakkes woll be so pakked and wynded the same
Robert or his executours, or assignes shul delivre or do to be delivred
to the seid [John or his] assignes 1. fleses fyne woll, good and mar-
chaunt. And the seid Robert graunteth by these presentes that
he or his assignes upon resonable warnyng to him or them made
by the seide [John or his] assignes shul seurly and savely convey
and carye all the seid xxv sakkes and 1. fleses woll, or suche part
or parcelles of them as the seid John, his executours or assignes
[shul se]nde fore, bitwene the day of the date of these presentes
and the ffeste of the Purification of our lady nowe next for to come
from Watlyngton aboveseid unto the [Leden]hall¹ in London the
seid xxv sakkes woll, at the Kynges Beem there after the usage
and custume of the same place thenne to be weied, and there and
[then as] wele the same xxv sakkes as the seid 1. fleses woll savely
and surely shull delivere, or do to be delivered to the seid John or
to his assignes to the propre use [and behoof] of the same John:
and over that the seid Robert graunteth by these presentes that
thenne and there the same Robert shull delivre or do to be delivred
to the seid [John or] his assignes overe and beside the seid xxv
sakkes and 1. fleses wolle, xxv nailles² fyne woll, good and mar-
chaunt, at the Beem aboveseid after the weight there accustomed to
[the use] of the seid John: ffor the whiche seid xxv sakkes, 1. fleses,
and xxv nailles woll in maner and fourme aforseid to be delivered
by the seid Robert or his assignes to the seid John [or his] assignes
the same John shull pay or do to be paide to the said Robert, or
to his executours or assignes, cxl. li. of lawfull money of Englond,
wherof the seide [Robert know]lecheth him to have receyved of
the seid John the day of the date of these presentes lxxxj li. xvij s.,
and the Residue of the same cxl. li. the seid John shull [pay or do to]
be paide [unto] the seid Robert or to his executours or assignes
withynne a day next suyng after that all the forseid Wolles be
delivred at the Beem aboveseid. [And the] seid partyes to these
indentures chaungeably have sette there seales the xij day of
September and xviij yere aboveseid.

[The seals are lost.]

     ¹ The Leadenhall was appointed for the tronage or weighing of wool in
1463. Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward IV., i. 285.

     ² A nail was eight pounds.

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