1340-08-10, Berkhamp

the mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich. The merchants of the society of Peruzzi have besought the king that whereas they caused 46 sacks and cloves of wood, 388 wool fells, to wit 7 sacks and 6 cloves thereof in 8 under the name of Arnald de Aldyngham, 28 sacks and 42 cloves 28 sarplars under the name of Anthony Bache, 5 sacks and 50 cloves the name of Thomas Cary, 300 wool fells in two sarplars under the of Arnald Simonet, 20 wool fells in one sarplar under the name of de Maldre, 18 wool fells in a pack (fard) under the name of John de Burton laded in the port of London in a ship of Alan atte Mede long before king's order that no wool should be taken out of the realm before the of wool in that port, to be taken thence to Bruges in Flanders, and paid there the customs and subsidies due thereon, as may appear letters in the merchants possession under the coket seal, and the ship to Bruges fled to the port of Sandwich for fear of the king's who were then at sea, and the mayor and bailiffs, pretending that wool had been laded after the order aforesaid, arrested it and detain it, the king considering that the said wool and fells were laded to be taken parts beyond the sea in aid of the expenses of the king's household the merchants undertook to find, orders the mayor and bailiffs to the said letters of coket and if they find that satisfaction was done to king for the custom and subsidy in the port of London, before the order then to cause the said wool and fells to be de-arrested without and delivered to the said merchants to be taken to Bruges as aforesaid. By C.