1313-07-04, Berwick-on- Tweed

goods of Englishmen seized in Flanders, and that the count should acquit the said king and his father against the Flemish merchants, and if the value of the goods seized in England were insufficient for the payment of the Englishmen Hor their goods seized j in Flanders, then the count should make good the deficiency, with like clause for restitution by the king in case the English goods seized in Flanders were insufficient to satisfy the Flemish merchants for their goods seized in England; and it was found by inquisitions that the goods of the merchants of England, Iveland and Wales seized by the countess were worth 4,000J. ster ling more than the Flemish goods seized in England ; which sum the count did not pay, although often requested to do SO ; whereupon the late king ordered that 730 marks in which the mayor and community of the city of London were bound to certain burgesses of Ghent on behalf of Henry ITI., which he found deposited in a certain place, should be distributed to the said English merchants in part payment of the above 4,000/.; and the bailiffs and échevins of Ghent, at the procuration of their said com-burgesses, caused the wool and other goods of William de Luyton, Robert Person, Roger le Viroler, Richard de Wandesworth, William le Folour, Henry de Arder ne, William de Kent, Hugh Pourt, John Gombaud, and Peter de Blakeneye, citizens of London, to hes Bareered to the value of 1,000/. sterling in the town of Sluys (de Eaclusis) for the above 730 marks ; whereupon the late king frequently requested the bailiffs and éehevins to satisfy the said citizens for their goods so arrested, and to restore the said bond to the mayor and community of London ; the late king afterwards, because the bailiffs and échevins sent many frivolous and untruthful replies to him and did not fulfil his request, desired Sir Robert de Beton, count of Flanders, to do justice herein; and the present king wrote to him requesting him to do speedy justice to the said citizens: because the said count has not done justice to them, as appears by the letters patent of the mayor and community of the city of London, the king now orders the sheriffs to arrest goods of the men of Ghent to the value of 1,0002. sterling, the estimated value of the above goods, and to keep the same until the said citizens have been satisfied, certifying the king of their proceedings herein. By K. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer.