June 25.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Whereas at the suit of William
Scarlet and Stephen Pole of Cornewaille, the king's merchants, showing
that they laded a ship of John Dien of St. Helens, Isle of Wight, called
'la Juliane de Wyght,' with tin, hides, cheese and other merchandise to the
value of 500l., to be taken to Flanders, and Copinus Theghelere of Caleys
and other malefactors of the realm of France and Normandy entered that
ship when sailing on the high sea between Sandwich and Lescluse, after
the truce between the king and Philip de Valoys, killed the mariners and
took the ship with the goods to Leure in Normandy, and there divided the
goods, and although William and Stephen sued before Philip and his council
for the said goods and for justice, yet Philip and his ministers have refused
to do justice to them, wherefore the king ordered the sheriff of Cornwall
and the mayor and bailiffs of Lostwythiel to take an inquisition upon the
matter, by which it is found that the merchants laded that ship with 375
pieces of tin weighing 52 miliare, worth 240l. of the stamp of Edward,
prince of Wales and duke of Cornwall, and 17 dickers of hides price 8l. 10s.,
and 1,707 stones of cheese, price 100l., and 54 bacon hogs price 10l. 12s.,
57 stones of butter price 66s. 8d., and cloth of divers colours, beds and
armour to the value of 30l., and 6 sacks of feathers, price 6l., in the port of
Fawy, on Wednesday in Easter week in the 17th year of the reign, after
the truce, and that the said Copinus, John le Fevre of Boloigne, Peter
Mounbele of Caleys, Statyus Tasiot of Boloigne, Hauyn Rogger of Boloigne,
John Burdeaux of Luere and other malefactors of the realm of France and
the parts of Normandy, attacked that ship as aforesaid on Tuesday after
St. Mark in the said year, killed John Dien, Philip de Trewynt and John
Phelipp, attorneys and serjeants of the said merchants, and fourteen
mariners, and carried off the ship and its tackle, price 46l. and all the goods,
to Leure, and there divided them, and Roger Mustel of Rouana, John
Cabot of the same, John son of Martin Bok of the same, John Lailler,
Vincent de Vauricher, Robert de Castol of Rouana and others unknown of
Normandy, knowing the goods to be plundered, bought them of the
said malefactors, and the merchants went to Philip at Paris and his
justices for a remedy, and they utterly refused, and the said buyers
of the goods, after the merchants had laid their petitions, pursued them
and would have killed them if they could have taken them, wherefore
William and Stephen have besought the king to provide a remedy, and the
king ordered them to arrest all the goods and merchandise of the said Copinus
Teghelere, John le Fevre of Boloigne and other malefactors and of other
men and merchants of the realm of France and the duchy of Normandy
found in that bailiwick and up to the sum of 224l. 5s. 5d. in part satisfaction
of 524l. 5s. 5d. and to be kept safely until William and Stephen should be
satisfied for that sum and the damages suffered by them, or until further
order, and that they should certify the king from time to time of the goods
taken by them, and the king ordered the mayor and sheriffs of London
similarly to arrest such goods to the sum of 300l. and keep them as aforesaid,
and the mayor and bailiffs returned that by virtue of the said order they
had arrested, of the goods of Gerard Faure of France 20 tuns of wine price
40l., of the goods of John Stury of the same realm 20 tuns of wine price
53l. 6s. 8d., of the goods of Bartholomew Bertram de Sancto Johanne
of the same realm, 50 tuns of wine price 132l. 0s. 10d. and of the goods of
Humphrey Porrei of Cayon of the same realm 800 stones of woad price 12l.,
and now William and Stephen have besought the king to cause the said
goods, which are extended at 237l. 7s. 6d. to be delivered to them in satisfaction of the 224l. 5s. 5d., in part satisfaction of the residue of the said
524l. 5s. 5d., because the mayor and sheriffs of London have not been able
to find any goods of the men of France and the said duchy, as they have
certified in chancery, and because William and Stephen have found before
the king in chancery Henry de Trethewy, John Crochard, John Pitte, parson
of the church of St. Dominica, John Taillour and John Trem . . of co. Cornwall and John de Depham of London, mainpernors, who have undertaken
for William and Stephen to answer for the said wine and woad at his order
or for the price thereof if it chance to be adjudged to others: the king orders
the mayor and bailiffs to deliver the said wine and woad to William and
Stephen without delay by the said mainprise. The king has ordered the
mayor and sheriffs of London, the mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich and the
mayor and bailiffs of Exeter to arrest the goods of the said malefactors and
of the men of France and the duchy of Normandy up to the sum of the
286l. 17s. 11d. remaining, to wit the mayor and sheriffs of London up to
100l., the mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich up to 86l. 17s. 11d. and the
mayor and bailiffs of Exeter up to 100l. and to keep them safely in the form
aforesaid. By C. |
