1323-07-28, Cowick

To Roger de Waltham, keeper of the wardrobe. As the king learns by inquisition taken by William de Leycestre ard John de Louthre, his clerks, that a ship called Portepeis of Melecombe, laden with 20 barrels of wheaten flour and 500 quarters of beans by Thomas de Marlebergh, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, and another ship called Seynte Marie Cogg of Melecombe, laden with 50 barrels of wheaten flour and 210 quarters of beans by the said sheriff, which corn the king ordered to be bought and purveyed with other corn in his bailiwick and to be sent to Skymburnesse for the expedition of the Scotch war, were driven by storm on the voyage to Skymburnesse [ashore] at Alandby near Skymburnesse on Wednesday before St. Barnabas last, and were in such peril that 108 quarters of beans were thrown [overboard] from the former ship and two barrels of wheaten flour and 17 quarters of beans were thrown [overboard] from the latter ship, and that the aforesaid victuals were wrecked (periclitata) and lost by sea-tempest and not by anyone s fault, the king orders the keeper to cause the sheriff to have allowance for the corn thus lost. . 9