Close Rolls, Edward III: Deember 1371 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: Deember 1371', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374, (London, 1911) pp. 357. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol13/p357 [accessed 19 April 2024]

Deember 1371



	Membrane 1d.
Dec. 21. Westminster.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order on sight of these presents forthwith to cause proclamation to be made in the said city and the suburbs thereof on the king's behalf forbidding any merchant or other of whatsoever estate or condition under pain of forfeiture for any cause whatsoever under any pretext or device secretly or openly to sell to any alien merchant or merchants any ships or other vessels fit for crossing the sea, and if any merchants or others shall so do contrary to the proclamation, order to certify in chancery from time to time under their seals the names of all and singular who shall sell such ships and vessels; as the king is informed that divers merchants of the realm are purposing to sell to alien merchants great number of such ships and vessels, which if it were done would manifestly [tend] to the king's prejudice and the succour of his enemies; and the king would take precaution against the danger threatened thereby. By K.
	[Fœdera.]
	The like to the mayor and bailiffs of the city of York and of five other cities and towns, the bailiffs of the town of St. Botolph and five other towns, Andrew de Guldeford constable of Dovorre castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, Ralph de Ferrars and Robert de Assheton admirals of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames northward and westward respectively.
	[Ibid.]