1293-08-17, Winchester
To Stephen de Penecestre, warden of the Cinque Ports. .Order to cause to be arrested until otherwise ordered all the small wares sold by weight (totum averium ponderis) in the land of those ports or in ships in the sea, and that shall come thither, as the king understands that certain ships carrying these wares have come to the Cinque Ports and that others are coming. The king wills that the goods or wares of merchants-who are under the king's [safe] conduct or of merchants who are of the: lordship of the king of France shall not be arrested in any way by reason of the aforesaid order.
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