1326-02-05, Walsingham

To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to cause diligent search to made in the port of that city so that no one shall take or send out of the horses, armour, gold, silver in mass or money by tule, except merwho the king wills shall be charged upon oath and diligently searched the mayor and sheriffs that they do not take out of the realm horses, or letters prejudicial to the king or his subjects or suspected, contrary the form of the king's ordinance, the king having ordered all the sheriffs the realm to cause proclamation to be made prohibiting the taking or out of the realm of horses, armour, gold, silver in mass, or money tale. If they find any one taking or sending such horses, armour, gold silver out of the realm in that port, merchants excepted, they are to without delay such horses, armour, gold or silver, and to cause the to be kept safely until further orders, certifying the king in chancery the names of those carrying or sending such things out of the realm, of the value of the things arrested, and of all their proceedings in this from time to time. By K.