1388-09-20, Cambridge

the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to dearrest divers of the Hanse dwelling within the realm, by them lately by virtue of the king's writ, suffering them at pleasure to make advantage of goods and wares of theirs likewise arrested, and at large, and not troubling them contrary to the charters of former confirmed by the king, whereby (among other liberties and it was granted that merchants of the Hanse in Almain their goods should not be arrested or aggrieved within the king's and power by reason of any debt for which they were not sureties debtors, nor of any trespass by others committed, although at of certain lieges of London, Norwich, Lenne, Great Jernemuth, Botolphs town and Kyngeston upon Hull, averring that their men servants and all their goods at la Sounde are arrested by men of Rustok, Wissemere, Sounde and Hamburgh in Almain, and yet under arrest until those men be contented for alleged wrongs damage done them by Englishmen at sea and elsewhere, by his writ the king ordered the mayor and sheriffs to arrest all men and of the towns aforesaid and of other parts of Almain which are shall be in the port of London or elsewhere within their bailiwick jurisdictions, and to keep them under arrest until they should security not to eloign themselves or their goods out of the realm licence of the king, but to be ready to answer touching what be laid against them on behalf of the king and his merchants ; Herman Vynthorp, John Pape, William de Borne, Herman Husman Matthias Walkemele have before the king in council mainperned themselves and their fellows, merchants of the Hanse, under pain all their goods which are or shall be in London or elsewhere within realm, that merchants and other lieges of the realm may come go with their goods and merchandise whatsoever within the of Lubyk, Rustok, Wissemere and Hamburgh and the districts as they used of old time, without hurt, wrong, arrest or violence men of those towns. By C. like to the following : The bailiffs of Great Jernemuth and the collectors of customs and subsidies in that port. The bailiffs of St. Botolphs town and the collectors there.