Part 12

Gone.

FOREIGN MERCHANTS.

1233. Mandate to the bailiffs of Peter de Dreux, count of Brittany, in the fair of St. Botolph, that every week, for so long as the fair lasts, they shall cause thrice to be proclaimed throughout that fair that no merchant bringing wine for sale to England, whether wine of Gascony, of Anjou, of Oblenc (Le Blanc on the Creuse), of Auxerre, or of other place, shall after this fair of St. Botolph bring to England any dolium of wine which contains less than it was wont to hold in the time of Henry, Richard and John, kings.

Cal. of Close, 1231-4, 223.

1235. THE KING TO HIS BAILIFFS OF YARMOUTH GREETING.

Know that we have granted by our charter for us and our heirs to our beloved citizens of Cologne that they may go freely to the fairs throughout our land, and buy and sell in the town of London and elsewhere, save for the liberty of our city of London.

Cal. of Close, 1234-7, 216.

1279. TO WILLIAM DE BRAYBOEF, KEEPER OF THE PRIORY OF WINCHESTER.

Order to send to the king the 310 marks which Reyner de Luk and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, lent to William at the last fair of St. Giles at Winchester.

Cal. of Close, 1272-9, 519.

1327. The bailiffs of Boston Fair ... have arrested wool and other goods of Taldus Valoris and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, in the said fair.

Cal. of Close, 1327-30, 221.

1276. TO JOHN BEK AND PHILIP DE WYLBY.

Order to restore upon this present occasion to the merchants of Douay in Flanders their goods arrested by John and Philip; for the king lately ordered John and Philip to arrest the wool and goods of merchants of Flanders in Boston Fair and at Lynn and Lincoln, yet it was not his intention that the goods of certain persons should be arrested, but that all goods and wares of Flemings should be arrested at one and the same time everywhere in the realm, by reason of the debt which the countess of Flanders owes to him and the merchants of the realm; and by reason of the neglect of the agreement between the king and countess; and the king did not then recollect his grant to the Flemish merchants that they might safely come into the realm and stay until the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula last past.

Cal. of Close, 1272-9, 308.

1293. TO THE STEWARD OF THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, LATE KEEPER OF THE FAIR OF WINCHESTER.

Order to cause to be delivered to Robert de Basing, citizen of London, two bales of cloth, which Robert lately bought from the merchants of St. Omer in the fair aforesaid, and which the steward caused to be arrested under pretext of the king's order to arrest the goods and wares of merchants of the power and lordship of the count d'Artois; as Robert de Tybetot has become surety before the king for the said Robert that he will answer to the king for the bales in the next parliament.

Cal. of Close, 1288-96, 302.

1328. TO THE SHERIFF OF HUNTINGDON.

Order not to arrest the goods of the men or merchants of Mechlin in Brabant, and not to molest them by virtue of any order to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the power of the duke of Brabant, in the fair of St. Ives or in his bailiwick, as the king learns that Mechlin belongs to the count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, and not to the duke of Brabant.

The like to the abbot of Ramsey's bailiff of the fair of St. Ives.

Cal. of Close, 1313-18, 408.

1364. TO THE BAILIFFS OF GREAT YARMOUTH AND THE COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS THERE.

Order to suffer fishermen from Flanders and elsewhere over sea, who shall come within the realm for taking herring of the present season and bringing them to Yarmouth Fair, to take with them to their own parts or elsewhere, without let, at their will, all the money they shall receive for the price of herrings brought thither and sold at the said fair, after paying the customs due thereupon, ... although lately the king caused proclamation to be made throughout the realm forbidding any man, under pain of forfeiture, to take or cause to be taken out of the realm gold or silver in money or otherwise: as, willing to shew favour to the said fishermen, the king has given them license under his protection to come within the realm, and take at sea what herring they may, receive money in gold for what they shall sell, and take the same with them whither they will, as they shall deem for their best advantage.

Cal. of Close, 1364-8, 30.

MISCELLANEOUS POINTS OF INTEREST.

Special Organisation of Citizens of York in Boston Fair.

1275. TO THE BAILIFFS OF BOSTON.