1301-12-17, Linlithgow

the sheriffs of London. Eustace de Audenarde and William de merchants of Flanders, have given the king to understand that sacks of their wool delivered by them to Francis de Audenarde Francis lately avowed to be his own, and caused to be loaded in port of London to be taken by him beyond sea, and for which he the custom thereon due to the king to be paid in his own name, which wool the sheriffs arrested because 10/. sterling were found Francis at the time when he wished to cross, contrary to the made by the king and his council that no one shall carry of the king's mint (cuneo) of England or any silver out of the without his special licence were not the property of Francis and he had no share in them, and that they were and are wholly theirs. the king wishes to be more fully certified in this matter and as he to do them justice, he orders the sheriffs to cause the wool thus to be kept safely without loss or damage until further orders.