1323-04-15, London

Order date: inferred Regnal year 16 Edward II · Edward II · Close Rolls · Membrane 8

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Dated in source: “April 15” · Place: London (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 8 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriffs of London. Order to permit Hugh Copyn, Peter Toys, Matthew son of Walter, Mundekyn son of Lambert, Peter Moyte, John le Brun, and Arnold le Clouer, Flemings, to return home, provided that one of them shall stay in the city for the others until the king learns that the prisoners of his realm and power have been released from prison within the dominion of the count of Flanders, or until further orders, the king having lately ordered the sheriffs to release the Flemings aforesaid from Neugate, wherein they were imprisoned by reason of the dissensions between the subjects of the king and of the count, upon condition that each of them mainperned for another not to leave the city without the king's licence. The king makes the present order at the request of Totto Gidi. By K.

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