1293-08-27, Clarendon

To the mayor and bailiff of Southampton. Order to arrest all goods and merchandise of the men and merchants of St. Valery and Barbeflete, and to cause them to be kept safely until otherwise ordered, as the king understands from the complaint of certain burgesses and men of Southampton that their goods and merchandise taken by them to St. Valery and Barbeflet for purposes of trade are arrested there without reasonable cause, and are still detained from them, if the mayor and 21 KDWARD I. 301 ascertain that this is so. They are prohibited, under pain of forfeiture from arresting goods of others than those of St. Valery Barbeflet by pretext of this order.