1343-12-17, Westminster

To John de Monte Gomeri, admiral of the fleet towards the west, and to his fellows, appointed to arrest ships which were arrested for the passages of the king, the magnates and other lieges to Britanny and which did not come, together with the lords and masters of the same, and to take the fines pertaining to the king for the forfeitures of the ships, in accordance with the ordinance thereupon. Order to cause Thomas Blanket, lord of a ship called Ja Sumpcion of Bristol, whereof Ed mund] Blanket is master, to be dearrested without delay, as on the letters of Oliver de Ingham, then seneschal of Gascony, being exhibited before the king in chancery, showing that the said ship was sent by the admiral s order to conduct the seneschal from Britanny to Bordeaux, the king ordered Reymund Seguyn, lately appointed to arrest such ships, to dearrest the said ship with its tackle and all Edmund's goods and chattels therein, and deliver them to Edmund, and now the king has learned from Thomas that the admiral has arrested him and exacts a fine for the forfeiture of the ship, pretending 3058 it did not set out on the said passage, whereupon Thomas has besought king to provide a remedy, and by the letters of Oliver in chancery and the letters patent of Hugh le Despenser, shown before the king in chanit is clear that the ship crossed with Hugh to Britanny and thence Oliver to Gascony.