1295-10-03, Canterbury

Stephen de Penecestre, constable of Dover castle, and a of the Ports. Forasmuch as the king learns that certain men of those cause their goods and chattels to be taken to divers places outside liberty of the ports, maliciously withdrawing themselves from the aforesaid, by which withdrawal damage and danger may easily those parts: the king orders Stephen to cause to be arrested all persons whom he shall find in his bailiwick thus withdrawing themfrom those ports and carrying their goods and chattels from those and to cause them to be kept in safe custody until he receive orders from the king, and to cause their goods and chattels to be into the king's hands, to be kept until the king shall herrea like to the sheriff of Kent, mutatis mutandis. the sheriff of Kent.