1324-10-06, Porchester

To Edmund, earl of Kent. Arnald de Sant of La Borde has prayed the king to cause a fortalice of Arnald s in the marches of Navarre at two from Bayonne, which is said to be useful for the defence of the whole duchy [of Aquitaine], and was [useful] in the late king's time, to maintained and defended; the king, as it is testified before him by of his subjects of the city of Bayonne, that it is expedient that the should be kept well and sufficiently for the defence of the duchy, the earl to advise with those of the king's council whom he shall fit to assemble for this purpose, and to cause to be done by their advice shall seem good for the king's honour and the defence of those By K. . 315