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Letters (in Norman-French) by John Darreys, narrating that as Alayn of Strother has become bound under 'estatut marchent', made at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1st May 1359, to pay the granter 80 livres at the feasts of Pentecost and St. Peter 'ad uincula' [Lammas] next, by equal portions, the granter wills that Alayn or his heirs may pay 40 livres at Pentecost and forty marks at Lammas, until the ' estatut marchent' lose its force and be of no avail, etc. At Newcastle-on-Tyne, 4th May [1359].