1344-12-27, Norwich

Alfonso, king of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Galicia, Seville, Cordova, Jaen, Algarves and Algeciras and lord of the county of Molina. king has received his letters made at Seville on 29 September last that it will please him for the king to go on a pilgrimage to parts and how he has sent knights to Bayonne to await the king and him and how he has ordered his subjects to treat the king for which the king thanks him, and Alfonso wishes to know the king sent envoys to treat concerning the marriage of his daughter Alfonso's eldest son, who on their arrival at Bayonne heard a rumour certain of their fellows with the king's commissions were drowned in by sea to avoid the realm of France, whereupon they delayed to go as Nicholas de la Beche, seneschal of Gascony, has informed the and the king has caused a new commission to be made immediately has sent it to the said envoys at Bayonne, ordering them to go to as quickly as possible to treat concerning the said marriage and alliances, wherefore the king requests Alfonso to hold firmly to the matrimony and alliance until the arrival of the said envoys, who are to him. [Federa.]