1382-06-08, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 6 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 3

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Dated in source: “June 8” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 3 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the mayor and bailiffs of Sandewich. Order, upon petition of de Foxton and by his mainprise, to dearrest and deliver to a ship of his called the Godeyere ; as it is shewn the king that merchants of Portyngale, being of the king's friendship, lately a ship in Portyngale with divers goods and merchandise to bring England or elsewhere, that Richard Tovy, John Goldyng, Richard John Harston, John Clerke, John Counden, Master John Gunner, Duche cooke, Robert the cokespage, Edmund Olyvet and other evildoers and breakers of the peace in the said William's by force of arms entered the said merchants ship on its voyage the coast of England, assaulted, beat and wounded the merchants, men and servants, took and carried away their ship and etc., wherefore the said William's ship was seized into king's hands ; and the said William has mainperned in chancery a pain of 2007. to answer to the king for his said ship or the value if it shall be adjudged to the king.

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