1327-03-28, Westminster

To the mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich. John de Seue of Caen (Caan), merchant of Normandy, has shewn the king that whereas he lately caused a ship of La Val (dw Vale) in Normandy to be loaded at Caen with divers of his goods and merchandise, and came with the said ship and goods to Sandwich after the king's accession, the mayor and bailiffs arrested the ship and goods by pretext of the Jate king's order to arrest goods of men and merchants of the power of the king of France, and still detain them under arrest, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the mayors and bailiffs to release the ship and goods from arrest, and to deliver them to John, if he came to that town with the ship and goods after the king's accession, and if the ship and goods were arrested by them solely by virtue of the aforesaid order. By p.s.