1315-12-01, Clipston

Schedule Eeclusis) in Flanders, appraised with the goods in her at 11d. 8s. 2d., as found by an inquisition taken at the suit of William de la Sale and his fellows, merchants of Neweastle-on-Tyne, by reason of a trespass committed upon them by the men of Bruges and Sluys, was arrested in the port of Great Yarmouth and delivered to the said William and his fellows at the said appraisement, the process in such cases required having been duly observed, in part satisfaction of 100/. of 278/. due to them for the said trespass, and that it was delivered to the merchants long before receipt of the king's order to deliver her to William Cleyssone ; as it is not consonant with reason that what has been terminated by reasonable and due process and executed should be cancelled or revoked to the injury of another, and as it appears to the king that the goods arrested at Stonbergh belong to the burgesses and merchants of Ipswich and ought not to be detained on this account, the king requests the duke to cause speedy justice to be done to the said merchants of Ipswich according to law merchant, lest complaint again reach the king, so that it would behove him to provide them with another remedy. The king hopes that the duke will not permit his subjects to injure the king's subjects, and desires him to certify the king by the bearer hereof of his proceedings in this matter. To W. archbishop of Canterbury. Request that he will cause brother Alexander de Stanwyk, monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, to be sent to some other place, there to remain according to the rule of his order, providing that the goods of the monastery alienated by him be recalled to the ownership of the monastery, in which the king will assist him, as the king learns from trustworthy accounts that Alexander, when lately filling an office in the monastery, dissipated the goods of the monastery in divers ways, giving them to his relations contrary to his profession, and that, because he has been deprived of his office, he now raises contentions and schisms amongst the brethren, the king desiring to preserve the quiet of that church on account of the devotion to it of his progenitors, the founders thereof, especially to St. Thomas the Martyr, and because he and his predecessors received the royal unction from that church. The king has ordered the prior and convent to assist and counsel the archbishop in executing this order. He is to certify the king of his proceedings by his letters before the next parliament. To Roger le Brabanzon.