1301-04-12, Feckenham

To the sheriff of Cornwall. Whereas the king has requested certain barons and other magnates of his realm to go to Edward, prince of 1 0 Wales, with horses and arms to Carlisle by Midsummer next, to set out with the prince against the Scots; wherefore the king has requested the bailiffs and men of Bodmyn and of other good towns where there are harbours (rivayium) in the sheriff's bailiwick by his letters to require and induce all merchants and others of those towns who wish to sell victuals and other necessaries to bring victuals and other necessaries by land and by sea to Skynburneyse near Carlisle against the arrival of the prince and his army there, or to cause them to be taken or otherwise carried thither: the king orders the sheriff to induce and procure from the merchants and others of those towns that they shall not omit to do and complete the king's request at this time by all means, telling them on the king's behalf that they are bound to do this the more willingly because they have come to the king by right of inheritance by the death of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, and because these are the first requests that the king remembers making to them since the earl's death, and that they shall do so much in the premisses as to earn the king's commendation. The king moreoyer wills and orders the sheriff, as before, to cause proclamation to be made that all who wish to sell victuals and other necessaries as 1s aforesaid shall not omit to bring them to the town of Skinburneyse against Midsummer, and to induce them to do this by all ways and means that he shall think fit, promising them that they shall find good sale (deliberacionem) for the said victuals and necessaries when they come thither and also prompt satisfaction for the price thereof, and that the king will cause them to be saved harmless in all things. In order that a good example shall be afforded to others in speedily doing the premisses, he wills that the sheriff shall cause any of the king's corn and other necessaries of maintenance that may be in the sherifl s custody to be brought to his son at the said day and place, and that the sheriff shall also apply the issues of his bailiwick in providing such victuals and in carrying them to the said day and place.