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H. P. captus per querimoniam mercatorum Flandrioe, et imprisonatus offert domino regi hus et haut in plegio ad standum recto, et ad respondendum praedictis mercatoribus et omnibus aliis qui versus eum loqui voluerint, &c.

Latin. H. P., arrested on complaint of the merchants of Flanders and imprisoned, offers to the King an elder-tree, and a halbert's staff, as a pledge, to stand (or appear in court) and to answer to the said merchants and to all others who shall be desirous to allege anything against him.