1388-09-27, Cambridge

To the mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton and the customers of that town. Order, upon petition of Lionel de Vyvat of Genoa (Janua) on behalf of himself and other Genoese merchants dwelling at London, to take of them security, for which the mayor and bailiffs and customers will answer, that they shall take a ship of Genoa, Bernard de Bekke of Genoa master or owner (patronus), and the goods and merchandise of the Genoese wherewith it is laded, to the city of London and nowhere else, and shall there unlade and custom the same, and without taking custom or subsidy thereof, if not exposed for sale in the port of Suthampton, to suffer the petitioners so to do, forthwith certifying in chancery the security so taken; as the said petition shews that the customers have arrested the said ship.