1316-12-16, Clipston

avoir-du-pois, price 200/., was anchored at Les Dunes, near the port of Sandwich, within the king's power, and that certain malefactors of the power of the count of Flanders assaulted the master and mariners and merchants with force and arms, and took and carried away the ship and her tackle, price 120/. sterling, together with the beds, robes, armour, coffers, silver cups, and other jewels of the merchants and mariners, price 22/. sterling, with all other goods and chattels in the ship, and carried the same to Le Swyne within the count's power, to the damage of the merchants of 100/. sterling beyond the above sums; of which wines, bales, and other wares, 17 bales of avoir-du-pois belong to the said Reymund, Poncius, and Bonetus, 50 tuns and a pipe of wine to the said Reymund, Aymer de Malonia, Gilbert de Brolio, and John de Monte Albano, 28 tuns of wine to the said Reymund and Arnald his brother, 20 tuns of wine to the said Reymund and to John du Pek, 13 bales of avoir-du-pois to the said Reymund, Dominic Pellico, and John Perere, as the said Reymund and Arnold have acknowledged before the king's council; the king, wishing to aid Reymund, Poncius, and Bonettus in recovering the said 17 bales of avoir-du-pois, which are appraised at 200/., and 171. 1s. 8d. for their portion of the said sum of 100/. for damages, orders the sheriff to arrest goods of the men of the count and community of Flanders to the value of 217/. 1s. 8d., and to cause them to be safely kept until Reymund, Poncius, and Bonetus have been satisfied, certifying the king of his proceedings herein. Afterwards, on 8 August, in the 14th year of the reign, they had writs to the sheriff of Lincoln for 1101. 1s. 8d., excepting Boston fair and those coming to it, and to the bailiffs of Kyngeston-on-Hul for 1001.