Close Rolls, Richard II: June 1386

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-1389. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1921.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: June 1386', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 3, 1385-1389, (London, 1921) pp. 64-65. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol3/pp64-65 [accessed 15 April 2024]

June 1386

June 2.
Westminster.		 To the mayor and bailiffs of Feversham, the collectors of customs in that port and the king's searcher there. Order, upon petition of John Clayson of Tolne in Seland, master of a ship called 'la Seint Marie' of Tolne, to dearrest and deliver to him the said ship, the salt wherewith it was laded and the money which he ought to have received for the sale thereof, suffering him with the same to pass whither he will; as his complaint shewed that at Baioun he laded his ship with salt and came to Feversham to sell it, that proclamation being there made by the mayor concerning the sale thereof he sold great part of it to divers lieges, that although after his entry into port the searcher straightway entered the ship and performed his office before the salt was exposed for sale, and although he bargained with the complainant concerning the salt, for that he might not have the same at his will, the said searcher of his malice arrested ship and salt and the said money in the hands of the complainant's creditors (sic), laying upon the complainant a charge that he exposed the salt for sale before the ship was searched. By C.
June 4.
Westminster.		 To Simon de Burley constable of Dovorre castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to his lieutenant there. Order, upon petition of James son of Peter and James son of John of Delf in Holand in foreign parts of the king's friendship, to take of the mayor and bailiffs of Wynchelse the price or value of the wheat by them sold, and deliver it or cause it to be delivered to the petitioners, delivering to William But the owner his ship called 'la nief Johan Betson,' of Holand with the goods etc. therein, and so behaving that the said petitioners and owner have no matter for a second complaint; as the said James and James have shewn the king that at St. Walery in Normandy they freighted the said ship with 200 quarters of wheat to be taken to Holand, that on the voyage thither it was arrested by Henry Bourneman master of a balinger of Hampton and brought to Wynchelse with the wheat and goods therein whatsoever, and that the mayor and bailiffs have sold the said wheat contrary to the king's command, although at suit of the said William the king by writ ordered them to unlade the same and deliver the ship to him, safe keeping the wheat until further order. By C.
The like, mutatis mutandis, to the mayor and bailiffs of Wynchelse.
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