1309-10-06, Bigger

Commission to Gilbert de Knoville and John de Batesford, touching a complaint by John Gorres, Peter Visteles, John de Portes, Elias de Talemont, John de Oriole and Bernard Chamal, of Abbeville, queen's merchants, that the sheriff of the county of Cornwall and other the king's ministers had seized, and still detain, the wine with which they had freighted the ship of Roger de Rypon of Newcastle-upon-Tyne for conveyance from La Rochelle to the port of Crotoy in Ponthieu. By contrary winds the ship was forced into the port of Mosoyle, co. Cornwall, where Robert de Ripon, the master, killed a man, for which felony the sheriff with his officers seized the wine as though it was his property or as though the merchants themselves were guilty of the felony, and although they were and are ready to prove that the wine is theirs and that the master has no share in it, the sheriff still defers restoring it to them. By K., at the instance of the queen. Commision of oyer and terminer to Miles de Rodbergh and William de Mortuo Mari, on complaint by Richard Naturel of Shrewsbury that Laurence son of Adam Priket and Simon Borrey with John his brother carried away his goods found at Shrewsbury, co. Salop. By p.s.