1345-11-08, Westminster

To Alfonso, king of Portugal and Algarves. The king is sending to him Masters Andrew de Offord, Richard de Saham, professors of civil law, and Philip de Barton upon the proposed alliance between them, and requests Alfonso to give credence to what they say. [Federa.] To the queen of Spain. The like request to give eredence to those envoys whom the king is sending to her father, as the king's ambassadors returning from the king of Spain has informed him that the queen would be pleased with an alliance between one of the king's sons and her sister, daughter of the king of Portugal. [Ibid.] Enrolment of grant to William de Burneton, burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne, to Hugh de Sadelyngstanes, of 24s. yearly rent from a messuage in Newcastle in a street called le Bradechere in Pampeden. Dated at London in the parish of St. John Zakarie, on Wednesday, the feast of St. Edmund the Bishop, 19 Edward III. , Memorandum that William came into chancery at Westminster on 20 November and acknowledged the preceding deed.