have and enjoy to him without any restriction or partition to be made thereof, as parcel of the sum aforesaid, nevertheless Thomas Thurland of Calais, because the said Thomas Ketyll would not deliver the said sum of 12l. 5s. to put the same in partition in the Staple, put him in prison and detained him for a long time contrary to the tenour of the letters aforesaid to the prejudice of our lord the King and the great damage and loss of the said Hugh and Thomas Ketyll. Wherefore please it your benign grace to grant a writ of _subpoena_ directed to the said Thomas Thurland to appear before you in the Chancery of our lord the King upon pain of 30l. to answer as well our lord the King as the said Hugh and Thomas Ketyll touching the premises, and to do right to the parties, by way of charity. 25. PROHIBITION OF EXPORT OF MATERIALS FOR MAKING CLOTH [_Guildhall, Letter-Book E, f. 167_],[232] 1326. Edward by the grace of God, King of England, etc., to our well-beloved Hamon de Chigewelle, Mayor of our city of London, greeting. We have read the letters that you have sent us, in the which you have signified unto us that Flemings, Brabanters and other aliens have been suddenly buying throughout our land all the teasels that they can find; and also are buying butter, madder, woad, fullers' earth, and all other things which pertain to the working of cloth, in order that they may disturb the staple and the common profit of our realm; and further, that you have stopped twenty tuns that were shipped and ready for going beyond sea, at the suit of good folks of our said city; upon your doing the which we do congratulate you, and do command and charge you, that you cause the said tuns well and safely to be kept; and if any such things come into our said city from henceforth, to be sent beyond sea by merchants aliens or denizens, cause them also to be stopped and safely kept, until you shall have had other mandate from us thereon; and you are not to allow any such things to pass through your bailiwick, by reason whereof the profit of our staple may be disturbed. We have also commanded our Chancellor, that by writs under our Great Seal he shall cause it everywhere to be forbidden that any such things shall pass from henceforth out of our realm, in any way whatsoever. Given under our Privy Seal at Saltwood the 21st day of May, in the 19th year of our reign. [Footnote 232: Printed in Riley, Memorials, 149.] 26. COMMERCIAL POLICY [_Political Songs and Poems_, _Rolls Series_, II, 282], _temp._ Edward IV. For there is no realm in no manner degree But they have need to our English commodity; And the cause thereof I will to you express, The which is sooth as the gospel of the mass. Meat, drink and cloth, to every man's sustenance They belong all three, without variance. For whoso lacketh any of these three things, Be they popes or emperors, or so royal kings,