1381-08-30, Leeds

To the searcher in the port of London. Order to dearrest and to Alice wife of William del Strother or to her servants a silver with gilt cover by him arrested on pretence that she had put it a ship to be taken without licence to foreign parts ; as Richard de the king's clerk has witnessed to the king and council that she purposed so to do, but delivered the same to a servant to take her lodging. To Ralph Wykes escheator in Huntingdonshire. Order, upon of the burgesses of Huntyngdon, by mainprise of William to suffer them to take seisin of all chattels found in the of felons concerned in the late insurrection, certifying the same chancery, and the price thereof, before the next parliament; as other liberties ete. granted to the said burgesses by charters former kings, confirmed by the king, it is granted that they shall the chattels of all felons, fugitives and outlaws, as well tenants within the town and liberty as strangers and others there so that they may take seisin thereof in aid of their farm without of the king or his ministers whatsoever, and without rendering to them; and now their complaint shews that the escheator to seize the chattels of divers insurgents there found, which to the burgesses, pretending that in such a case they ought to to the king.