1312-01-30, York

Commission to Robert son of Payn, Matthew de Furneus and Richard de Chiselden, whom the king had previously commissioned to enquire in the county of Dorset touching alleged attacks on foreign merehants upon the sea and the seizure of their goods, and before whom an inquisition had been taken at the prorecution of Stephen de la Funteyne, merchant of Perigueux, who asserted that divers persons in the water between Weymuthe and the island of Portland boarded a ship, the Seint Goymelote of Gerounde, freiehted with his wine, curried away a great part of the wine, and cut the cables when the ship was driven ashore by the wind on the island where the remainder of the wine was carried off by other transgressors, which inquisition the king sends to them with instructions to enquire further touching the matter. By C. 15.