Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1361 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1361', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, (London, 1909) pp. 85-86. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol11/pp85-86 [accessed 20 April 2024]

January 1361



Jan. 18. Westminster.	To William de Farlegh the king's clerk, keeper of the wardrobe. Order, if by the oath of John de Stodeye the king's butler he be assured that the facts stated in John's petition are true, to allow him in his account 74 tuns of wine lost at sea; as John has shewn the king that whereas he was charged, as well by the chancellor as by the king's writs to him addressed, to buy and purvey to the king's use a large quantity of wines, and to take the same to the towns of Caleys and Honyflu at the king's risk, by virtue thereof, and by assent of the chancellor and others of the council, he bought and purveyed 232 tuns of wine, and put them in two ships in the port of London, one [called] the George of Hoke the other the Katherine of Wynchelsee, to take to the said towns, and while those ships so laded were on their voyage thither the Katherine, with 116 tuns thereof, was cast upon a sandbank called the Griller in the mouth of the river Thames, and was there suddenly and utterly in peril, and 74 of those 116 tuns were totally lost, wherefore he prayed that the king would allow him the same in his account of the issues of the butlery. By K. and C.
	To the same. Like order, mutatis mutandis; as John de Stodeye aforesaid has shewn the king that, by direction of the council and by virtue of the king's writ to him addressed, he bought and purveyed one pipe of 'vernage' and one pipe of 'malveisyn' for the king's consumpton at Honyflu, and placed them in a small ship in the port of London called the Seyntemarie hakbote of London to be taken to Honyflu, and on its voyage thither the said ship, for fear of the king's enemies then at sea, touched at the port of Wynchelsee, and was there captured by the said enemies, who burnt the town of Wynchelsee, and was brought to the port of Harflu in Normandy, wherefore John prayed that the king would allow him those two pipes in his account.