1342-05-10, William Westminster

de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon, constable of Dover castle of the Cinque Ports or to him who supplies his place. Order all the goods and merchandise of men and merchants of the power of Philip de Vales[io], to be arrested up to the sum of the goods of merchants of that power who make continual England, and cause them to be kept safely until Robert of Gylyngham, son, heir and executor of William Beausatisfied for 800/. or until further order, informing the king to time concerning the goods so arrested and their owners, has shown the king that whereas his father caused a newly built his called la Rede cogge, whereof John Cokham is master, to be in Gascony with wine and other merchandise, and he took it to where he unladed and sold a part of the wine, and reladed the ship for its full burthen and took it thence to the port of Lira in to traffic there, Gencianus Tristrem, serjeant-at-arms of Charles, France, the king's uncle, came and unjustly arrested the ship with of the price of 2207. and 15 horse loads of salt, price 8871. 10s., 3 pipes of wine, price 10/. 10s. and divers armour, to wit 24 pairs of 9 bassinets with their aventails, 12 pairs gauntlets of plate and price 17/. 8s., and 8 silver pieces, price 40s., 2 beds and 2 chests, and bows, arrows, cross-bows, lances and divers other kinds of 52s., and-divers victuals for the expenses of the mariners of the the value of 7/. found in the ship in the said port of Lira in the of the late king's reign, and placed them in the hand of King as is testified by the letters patent of the bailiffs and citizens of although the master and others in the ship had committed no simply because they were subjects of the late king, and although made long and costly suit to King Charles for the restitution of and the said goods and satisfaction for his damages, extended at the estimate of lieges, and several times requested King Charles to justice to him, and Robert has likewise sued to Philip at so much his possessions are all but exhausted, yet Philip has not cared to justice to him, whereof the earl and other lieges have testified to wherefore Robert has kesought the king to provide a remedy. has sent like orders to the sheriffs of London for 1001., to the and bailiffs of Suthampton for 2U0I., to the bailiffs of Lenne for the bailiffs of Ipswich for 1007, By K. and C, 13.