1353-06-11, Westminster de Alan

To John de Wilughby, Philip de Nevill, William de Skipwith and Ralph Hanlay. Order to deliver to William del Bothe of Ancroft, Adam de Cotyngham, Richard de Ebor[aco], Thomas Coll, John de Graystanes, de Bukeby, Adam de Ebor[aco], William de Gosewyk, John Soroules, Raa, David de Langeton, William del Bothe of Norham, William Thomas Spenser, Richard de Bouerige, Robert del Bothe, de Beryngton, Adam de Welbourn, and Alban de Appelby, merof Berwick upon Tweed, who have found before the king in chancery Snell and Alan de Felton of Northumberland, mainpernors, have undertaken to answer to the king and Queen Philippa for all goods and chattels of the merchants in the hands of the queen's tenants others, if it be found that they ought to pertain to the king and queen wreck, or otherwise, all the goods and chattels which shall be found inquisition or otherwise to belong to those merchants, or the value as the king lately appointed John de Wilughby and the others to be Tembrane 16 to hear and determine a contempt and a trespass committed the king and the said merchants by certain malefactors near Saltfletin the parts of Lyndeseye, co. Lincoln, and ordered those if they should find by inquisition taken in the presence of the of Queen Philippa, who has claimed the goods and chattels specified in the commission of the justices as her wreck, that the said belong to the merchants and ought not to pertain to the queen as wreck, then to deliver the goods to the merchants ; and now the merchants informed the king that although it is found by divers inquisitions by the justices that all the goods lately in the said ship (sic) and cast shore, which are in the hands of the said tenants and others, ought to belong to the merchants because the men of the ship escaped alive to land, the justices have hitherto delayed to deliver those goods to the merchants who have besought the king to provide a remedy, and the king taken into consideration the long suit of the merchants for the recovery of those goods and their damages by reason of the same and the perils may come to the king and the town of Berwick by their long stay of the town. By K. and C.