1336-10-15, Berwick-on-

To the keepers of the ports and sea places in co. Southampton. Because king has been informed that several men-at-arms and others assemble parts beyond in divers galleys and other ships in no small multitude, emboldened because they have heard that the ships of that county have elsewbere from that coast against the attacks of the king's enemies, to invade the realm at Portesmuth to perpetrate what damage they against the king and his people; the king orders these keepers to such careful and diligent guard upon that port and the adjacent parts, to the king's orders directed to them at another time, and to resist attacks, if they be made, so boldly that these parts may be defended danger, and that the king may commend their diligence in this By K. and C.