1331-01-27, Hertford

Commission to Roger de Somervill, William Basset, John de Ellerker Langley. the elder and Simon de Grymesby on petition by L. bishop of Durham shewing that when he was returning to his diocese from the last Parliament a ship conveying his goods on the river Ouse was like to have been cast away, although as the men therein escaped alive his goods should not have been considered to be wreck ; but that notwithstanding this part of the same which had been cast ashore at Usflet, Blaktof and Flaxflet, co. York, was carried away and is still detained from him to discover the names of those who carried away the goods and to recover them for the bishop. By O. Feb. 10.