1334-10-28, Northallerton

To the mayor and bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Order to cause Thomas de Paxton, Simon de Mouesley, William, serjeant of William de Norham, Henry, serjeant of William de Beryngdon, and Alexander de Letehamme, merchants of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to be delivered from prison without delay, and to cause their goods, merchandise and money, which had been by the said mayor and bailiffs, to be de-arrested and delivered to those men, to be taken by them to Berwick; as it has been shown to the on the part of the said merchants, that whereas they lately freighted a ship called Ja Blithe of Boston, of which Richard Ramet was master, Flanders, to take certain goods and merchandise thence to Berwick, and the and bailiffs arrested the said ship, together with the goods and merand divers moneys of the said merchants, coming by the town of Yarmouth on its way to Berwick, and took and imprisoned the said and arrested their goods and merchandise and money ; and by of testimony of the mayor and bailiffs of Berwick the king has that the said merchants are in his faith and peace, and that they set out for Flanders to traffic there, from Berwick, by the licence of king's ministers there, and that they wished to take the said goods and and money so arrested to Berwick for the maintenance of the men staying there. By p.s. [8252.]