1353-06-11, Westminster

John de Wilughby, Philip de Nevill, William de Skipwith and Ralph Order to deliver to William del Bothe of Ancroft, Adam de Richard de Ebor aco], Thomas Coll, John de Graystanes, de Bukeby, Adam de Ebor aco], William de Gosewyk, John Soroules, Raa, David de Langeton, William del Bothe of Norham, William Thomas Spenser, Richard de Bouerige, Robert del Bothe, de Beryngton, Adam de Welbourn, and Alban de Appelby, merof Berwick upon Tweed, who have found before the king in chancery Snell and Alan de Felton of Northumberland, miainpernors, undertaken to answer to the king and Queen Philippa for all and chattels of the merchants in the hands of the queen's tenants if it be found that they ought to pertain to the king and queen or otherwise, all the goods and chattels which shall be found or otherwise to belong to those merchants, or the value as the king lately appointed John de Wilughby and the others to be justices to hear and determine a contempt and a trespass committed upon the king and the said merchants by certain malefactors near Saltflethaven in the parts of Lyndeseye, co. Lincoln, and ordered those justices, if they should find by inquisition taken in the presence of the ministers of Queen Philippa, who has claimed the goods and chattels specified in the commission of the justices as her wreck, that the said goods belong to the merchants and ought not to pertain to the queen as wreck, then to deliver the goods to the merchants ; and now the merchants have informed the king that although it is found by divers inquisitions taken by the justices that all the goods lately in the said ship (sic) and cast on shore, which are in the hands of the said tenants and others, ought to belong to the merchants because the men of the ship escaped alive to land, yet the justices have hitherto delayed to deliver those goods to the merchants who have besought the king to provide a remedy, and the king has taken into consideration the long suit of the merchants for the recovery of those goods and their damages by reason of the same and the perils which may come to the king and the town of Berwick by their long stay out of the town. By K. and C.