KING EDWARD II.'S LETTERS a.d. J 



marchants, who as yet remaine alive, and who also at 1 

 the time of the saide felonie committed, were shut 



up in close prison, be delivered out of the saide i 



thraldome, causing their goods which have bene taken ' 



from them, to bee, according unto justice, restored to | 



them again. And that the deliverie of our foresaide j 

 marchants and goods, may be the more easily yeelded 



unto, may it please you with diligent observation to i 



consider, that Gefferey Drew, and certaine other of our j 



marchants of Lenne, upon occasion of the greivances I 



offered unto your marchants within our Realme, (as ! 



the report goeth) at the suite of Tidman Lippe, paide j 



unto the same your marchants an hundreth pound | 



sterling : even as in a certain Indenture made betweene [I. 142.] ' 

 Ingelram Lende of Thorenden, and some other of your 



marchants on the one part, and betweene the foresaide i 



Gefirey, and certaine of our marchants on the other | 



part, wee sawe conteined. Moreover, if any of your ; 



subjects be minded to exhibite, and effectually to i 



prosecute their complaints in our Court, concerning any ■ 



of our subjects, or of any injury done unto them, we j 



will cause the petitions of those your subjects to be ; 



admitted, and also full and . speedie justice to be i 



administred, upon any such like complaints of theirs. '. 



Insomuch, that those your subjects shal thinke them- ! 



selves right well and sufficiently contented therewithall. ] 



And in the meane space we will cause diligent in- ' 

 quisition of the trueth to be made, of all excesses and 



grievances howsoever offered unto your subjects within I 



our dominions. May it please you therfore, by the 1 



bearer of these presents, to returne an answere unto | 

 us, what you are determined to doe in the premisses. 



Given at Westminster, the third day of April. ' 



[De Stapula 

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