1370-12-16, Westminster

Hugh Fastolf, subadmiral to John de Neville admiral of the fleet towards the north. Order, if the facts are as hereinafter to arrest as forfeit to the king and keep under arrest until order 20 tuns of wine sold contrary to the statute, the ship the same were, and all wine and other goods and chattels ; as it is contained in divers statutes that if any man shall tun or a pipe of wine before it be gauged by the king's butler, or other his ministers, the vendor shall forfeit to the king wine or the value thereof; and now the king has learned by witness that a ship laded with wine lately touched at Kirkele and that certain forestallers and others of the city of Norwich the same, and bought and forestalled 20 tuns of the wine they were gauged as aforesaid, in contempt of the king and to the statute.