1344-06-16, London

To Peter, king of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica, of Barcelona. The king has gladly received his letters reciting an of his own upon the taking of two cogs of Alfonso's subjects by Bernardi de Tholosa and Raymund de Bars, the king's subjects, of adding that justice has not been done to them by process held by king's ministers, as he had requested, saying that it is customary for lord of the person despoiled to take information concerning the damages and demand restitution of the lord of the spoilers, and that the and not the knowledge of the matter alone pertains to the lord of spoiler, and has again requested the king to accede to his previous the king thanks him, but as his subjects are ready to prove that fault lay with Alfonso's subjects, and that they were only defending the grant of a marque or pledge seems difficult not to say but that the king may not be found to lack justice, he has sent letters with all information upon the matter to the seneschal of in whose district the king's said subjects dwell, ordering him to the complement of justice to be done, and the king is always ready to further what is just and reasonable. [Fwdera.] ( 399 ) . Parr 2.