1348-04-08, Westminster

Mandate to sheriffs, bailiffs and others to arrest Bertrand de Petra Levata, monk of the priory of Montacute, of the Cluniac order, who having spurned his profession has gone forth from that order a rebel to his prior, and is now a vagabond, to the scandal of the order ; and deliver him to the prior to be chastised after the rule of the order. MEMBRANE Add, Commission of oyer and terminer to Thomas Wake of Lidell, William de Thorpe, Robert de Sadyngton, Thomas de Brayton and William de Iford, touching a complaint by Peter Guernerii, merchant of Lombardy, that whereas he delivered silver to the value of 401. to George Clerekini, one of the masters of the king's mint at the Tower of London, to be coined into money and restored to him in the usual manner, he has been unable hitherto to obtain repayment of the same or satisfaction otherwise, although he has sued with all diligence for this to the same George and Lottus Nicholy, the other master of the mint, who was bound along with George to see that such money was duly coined and delivered back to the merchants, whose it was. The king has already commanded the . Parr I. 88 of the exchange at the said Tower to see that justice was done but Peter complains although he has sued before the warden he obtain justice. By C.