KING EDWARD II. S LETTERS ad. 



Et interim de excessibus & gravaminibus subditis vestris 

 infra regnum nostrum qualitercunque illatis inquiri facie- 

 mus cum diligentia veritatem. Vestrae igitur voluntatis 

 beneplacitum in praemissis nobis rescribere velitis per 

 praesentium portitorem. Datae apud Westminster tertio 

 die Aprilis. 



The same in English. 



TO the mightie Prince king Haquinus, by the grace 

 of God the famous king of Norway, his most 

 deare friend Edward by the same grace of God, king 

 of England, lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine, greeting 

 and sincere love. We sent of late unto your royall 

 majestie our special letters, for the behalfe of our late 

 marchants of Lenne, and of the coast adjoyning (whome 

 your baily and officers of the citie of Bergen lately 

 apprehended, committing them to close prison, many 

 of whome, as we understand, are, for want of due 

 nourishment, and by reason of the extremitie & loath- 

 somnesse of the prison, quite perished) that you would 

 cause them and their goods to bee released. Howbeit, 

 you reteining as yet our marchants in durance as before, 

 in your letters, which we have diligently heard, and 

 throughly understood, have, amongst other matters, 

 returned this answere unto us : that certaine marchants 

 of your kingdome doe make sundrie complaints of 

 injuries, violences and arrests, whereby they have lately 

 (as themselves avouch) contrary to justice bene aggrieved 

 and oppressed in our dominions : adding moreover in 

 your sayde letters, that certaine sonnes of iniquitie of 

 the towne of Lenne, comming, as they saide, to fish 

 tor herrings, cruelly murthered a certaine Knight, who 

 was in times past your bayliffe of Vikia, together with 

 ten others of your subjects, being imployed about the 

 affaires of your kingdome. In consideration whereof 

 our minde is exceedingly and above measure grieved 

 and troubled, especially sithence it was never any part 

 of our intent, that any injuries, violences, or arrests 



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