1316-01-17, Clipston

To Nicholus Flemyng, mayor of York. Whereas lately at the suit of Nicholas Shayl of Alverton, complaining to.the king that whereas Gerard Salvayn delivered divers silver vessels to Richard son of Nicholas Shayl by decd indented as pledge for a sum of money owing by him to Nicholas, on condition that if he did not pay the money in the time specified in the deed, then the silver vessels should remain to Nicholas and Richard as their own chattels, and although Gerard did not pay the sum within the time, so that the vessels ought to remain to Nicholas and Richard, Hugh de Louther, appointed with others to hear and determine certain contempts and trespasses ccmmitted by Gerard upon the king, arrested the vessels as though they belonged to Gerard, the king thereupon ordered Hugh to certify him of the cause of the arrest; who certified that the vessels were found . 261 hands of William de Beleby of York because John son of the said and Mariota his wife took and carried the vessels away from house against his will to the house of Geoffrey le Botiller in and Richard Shayl, having found security to prosecute his before the mayor against John and Mariota for the wrongful and caption of the vessels, prayed the mayor to arrest the aforesaid until it should be decided to whom they ought to remain; wherethe king appointed John de Insula, John de Don , and Hugh to in the presence of the said Gerard, Nicholas, Richard, John, William, Geoffrey, and the mayor; by which inquisition it was that Gerard, on Friday after the quinzaine of the Holy Trinity, in eighth year of the king's reign, in York castle delivered divers silver named in the said deed to Richard Shayl, John de Richemund, and le Lystere, to be kept by Richard uutil the quinzaine of St. Martin as for payment of 62/. at that time, and that Richard son of Nicholas carried away certain vessels from the castle to the house of William Beleby in York, and delivered them, with the exception of twelve and a silver ewer (aquarium) contained in the said deed that John Adam carried away as security for 8/. 13s. 4d. due to them from to the said William until the said quinzaine, and that John son of Shayl and Mariota his. wife came to William's house, on Saturday Midsummer last, and prayed to have the said vessels delivered to to which William assented, and they carried them to the house of le Botiller in York, and that the mayor afterwards arrested the at the suit of William, and that they remained in the mayor s by the assent of William, John, and Mariota until the said and that Gerard did not pay the money at that time: wherefore king orders the mayor to deliver the vessels in his custody to Nicholas Richard, or to their attorney in this behalf. By K. on the information of W. Inge and John de Insula.