1343-04-16, Havering Atte Bower

To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to cause all the goods and atte merchandise bought by John Foundour and John de Wigorn [ia] , merchants, and arrested by the king's serjeants at arms or by the mayor and bailiffs, to be dearrested without delay and delivered to John and John to do their pleasure therewith, if Thomas Crosse and Peter de Gildesburgh have not the money ready to pay the price thereof or refuse to pay that price, as John and John have besought the king to provide a remedy, as they bought certain of the goods and merchandise of two ships called Tarytes which belonged to the king's enemies, taken at sea by Peter de Tholosa, master of a ship called la Katerine of Bayonne, and his fellows, brought to Southampton and delivered to Peter and his fellows by the king's order, and the said goods and merchandise are arrested because the king appointed Thomas and Peter to buy all the goods of the said two ships, brought to Southampton in the said ship, for money to be paid by William de Kent or his deputies in the king's name by Bartholomew Busshon and William Arnaldi, the king's serjeants at arms, by reason of a commission to arrest all the said goods, and John and John offered the goods so bought by them to the attorneys of Thomas and Peter for the price for which they were bought, but the attorneys detain the goods under arrest, asserting that they have no money to pay the price. By C. 8.