"Whereas the port of Melcombe is not sufficiently strong or populous for the protection of goods and merchandise brought thither against the king's enemies, whereby merchants, and notably John Roger, have suffered heavy loss, so that they are afraid to ship there and the king's customs suffer, and whereas the town and harbour of Pole are notably populous and the harbour is safe, and the mayor and burgesses of Pole,with the king's licence, propose to wall, crenellate and fortify the same; the king, by advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and of the commonalty of England in the present Parliament, has granted licence for the said mayor and burgesses to fortify their town and orders that Melcombe shall remain a port until Hilary next, and after that shall be no port but a creek as it was before, and that Pole at the said feast shall begin to be a royal port, and its mayor shall have power to receive recognisances of the staple, and such other liberties and franchises as the mayor of Southampton has. [Cf. Rolls of Parliament, IV. p. 468.] By pet. in Parl."
Granted at Westminster, by petition in Parliament.
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(In fact, the original source given is usually a transcription/translation of what are precious medieval documents not readily availably. It should be noted that these transcription/translations often date to the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and that unwitting bias of transcribers may affect the translation. Care should also be taken to avoid giving modern meaning to the medieval use of certain stock words and terms.)
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