1304-07-20, Stirling

To the bailiffs of John de Britann ia], count of Britanny, at Boston. Whereas the king at the complaint of Reymund de la Brouwe, citizen of London, suggesting that Nicholas son of Nicholas and Peter Caleward and certain other malefactors of Lombardy, stole and carried away by force of arms in Flanders from a ship of Pevenese, which was taking the bales to England to the port of Sandwich, from Reymund s men and servants appointed for the custody of the said goods four bales (balas) of red tawed leather (corei aluti), spices, and other small things, to the value of 1001. sterling and over, that had been bought for the king's use in parts beyond sea by Reymund requested Philip, son of Guy, count of Flanders, Chieti (Thieat ) and Loretto, a short time since to compel Nicholas and Peter and the other malefactors to make restitution of the goods aforesaid, or to make satisfaction for their estimated value to him who prosecuted this matter before the count in the name of the king and the said merchant ; and it now appears by the inspection of the letters patent of the échevins and consuls of the five good towns of Flanders that were shown before the king under the common seal of the town of Bruges that the échevins and consuls condemned Nichdlas and Peter and the other malefactors in 4851. 1s. Od. of Paris, at which sum the goods were appraised, and likewise in 121. of the same money for the expenses of Reymund in this matter, to be paid to Reymund, and they also decreed that the men of the said (sic) towns of Lombardy should satisfy Reymund for this sum without delay; and because the échevins and consuls deferred putting this condemnation and decree into execution, the king again requested the