1388-10-17, Cambridge

the king's expedition at sea, shall draw with all speed to Suthampton, thence to sail on his service at his wages with the admirals, captains and masters of the galleys, under pain of forfeiture forbidding all keepers of seaports and other places by the sea, and the owners and masters of ships, barges and balingers to suffer any such seamen etc. to pass therein to foreign parts, and all inhabitants or other lieges to take any such into their service, and ordering those who have taken any to cause them to depart ; as great number of them came as aforesaid, and now the king is informed that some are striving to absent themselves from the voyage, and to pass in divers ships etc. to their own and other foreign parts, and are purposing to turn aside to agriculture and other pursuits as labourers within the realm. By C. Like writs, mutatis mutandis, to singular the sheriffs throughout England, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Stafford, Notyngham and Derby excepted.