1371-05-08, Henley

Order to cause the agreement made between the and Louis count of Flanders, for themselves and their subjects, be proclaimed in the said town and elsewhere within the king's in those parts, on the king's behalf forbidding any man of estate or condition under pain of forfeiture to inflict or far is in them lies to suffer any wrong, trouble, violence, hurt, or grievance to be inflicted upon the merchants of Flanders, ships or merchandise coming within the king's dominion and by land or sea, there abiding, plying their traffic, and thence returning to their own again, and if any forfeit or wrong be done them or any of them to cause due amends to be made without delay, provided they shall ply lawful traffic, truly paying customs and other duties to the king as they ought according to the said agreement ; as the said agreement is that lords, people, subjects, shipmasters, seamen and merchants of either party on either side the sea and all other true merchants, not being enemies of either party, may freely and peaceably as merchants have their conversation and traffic one with another, bringing their own goods and the goods of other true . merchants, not being enemies as aforesaid, by land and by sea in as friendly, free and peaceable manner as they used to do in time of peace, paying customs and other duties, so that no merchant or other of Flanders shall by any colour, fraud or covin lade his ship or vessel with any goods of the king's enemies of France or Spain; and it is the king's will that this agreement be kept in all things so far as in him lies. By K. and C. [ Federa.]