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Notification to the mayor and bailiffs and other goodmen of Norhampton and the sheriff of Norhampton that the king is sending Henry de Bathonia and N. de Turn, justices, to enquire touching the following matter and to amend the same. Some time since the king caused to be cried in the fair
of Stanford that no merchant from beyond or on this side the seas should
take cloth to sell at any fairs of the realm unless they were of the right
and ancient assise, and B. earl of Cornwall, while the king was in Gascony,
by word of mouth warned the merchants of Douay and Ypres and other
merchants from beyond seas about this, but they by armed force resisted Richard de Ewell and John de Stratford, king's clerk, whom the king had sent to the fair of Northampton, to make the king's purchases there and
to arrest all cloths found there not of the right assise, and further, to the
contempt and prejudice of the royal dignity raised the hue and cry upon
the said mayor and bailiffs Eichard and John, unloaded the carts which
these had arrested with cloths of the said merchants, and beat a Serjeant
1255. of the sheriff. Witnessed by E. earl of Cornwall. |