1325-05-28, Chertsey

To the mayor and bailiffs of Wynchelse. Whereas a truce or sufferance was lately concluded between the king and his subjects, on the one part, . 377 the men and communities of the towns of Gaunt, Bruges, and Ipre, for and other men of Flanders, on the other part, concerning the between the king's subjects and the men of that land, to endure Easter last until Whitsuntide then next following, and from then for days following, and the king, at the request of the said men, has the truce to be prorogued until Easter next, willing that all merand others of that land may come into his realm with their goods merchandise safely aud securely, and may stay and trade therewith, that they exercise lawful merchandise and pay the due customs, that they may go out from the realm, and if aught be forfeited to any them by any one of this realm, the king will cause the same to be without delay, and that their goods and merchandise shall not be during the prorogation for the trespasses of others, or for debts they are not the principal debtors or sureties, or by reason of any heretofore committed contrary to the charter of the staple, provided the king's men enjoy the like privileges in Flanders: the king thereorders the mayor and bailiffs to cause the prorogation to be proclaimed that town, and to cause the truce or sufferance to be observed in all The king inhibits all persons, under pain of forfeiture of body and from doing damage to the men and merchants of Flanders by land by sea during the truce. As the king is given to understand that many his subjects have done much damage to the men of Flanders in the times the truces between them and the king, contrary to the king's inhibition, king orders the mayor and bailiffs to take security from all men going that town and port by water to Flanders or elsewhere to parts beyond that they will not aggrieve the men of Flanders by land or by sea. mayor and bailiffs are to know for certain that if any of the men thus from that town and port do damage to the men of Flanders by land sea, and if they cannot be found in order to make emends for the or if they be insufficient to make such emends, the mayor and must answer for the damages, and that the king will hold them to By K.