XXXX (XL):
Request for Warrant/ reprisal:
Your Royal Majesties King
Stephen and Queen Mathilde,
I request humbly of You to make oute comyssion of reprisall unto my future Captain to set oute and furnishe to the seas the good shippe called The Gardian of the burden of 50. tonnes or thereabouts in warlike manner agayst the enemies and rivals of the Kingdom of Lochac and their subjects and his or theire goods under such articles and conditions as are agreed to in this missive, that being:
Annual payment for Captaincy of The Gardian, and report by Ship's Log
Annual Tithe from the First Mate Auction tourney, the rest of the funds going to Rapier in Innilgard.
And let this be your warraunt for the same.
From the Port of Innilgard
Your loving subject and owner of The Gardian,
Lady Katerina da Brescia
To Your Royal Majesties King Aedward and Queen Yolande
Crown of Lochac
12th day of February, XXXIX
We await Their Majesties
reply...
XXXIX:
Request for Warrant/ reprisal:
Your Royal Majesties King Aedward and Queen Yolande,
I request humbly of You to make oute comyssion of reprisall unto my future Captain to set oute and furnishe to the seas the good shippe called The Gardian of the burden of 50. tonnes or thereabouts in warlike manner agayst the enemies and rivals of the Kingdom of Lochac and their subjects and his or theire goods under such articles and conditions as are agreed to in this missive, that being:
Annual payment for Captaincy of The Gardian, and report by Ship's Log
Annual Tithe from the First Mate Auction tourney, the rest of the funds going to Rapier in Innilgard.
And let this be your warraunt for the same.
From the Port of Innilgard
Your loving subject and owner of The Gardian,
Lady Katerina da Brescia
To Your Royal Majesties King Aedward and Queen Yolande
Crown of Lochac
Ides of March, XXXVIII
(The request for warrant is taken directly from Warrant from the grant of letters of reprisal for the Flight Jan, 1591 found in English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588-1595 by Kenneth R. Andrews University Press, 1959)
Letters of
Marque, signed by Their Majesties King Aedward and Queen Yolande:
The King Aedward and Queen
Yolande to all and singular, Greeting.
Know ye that we have granted and given to our well-beloved Katerina da Brescia, owner of a certain ship called The Gardian, and to , Captain of said ship liberty to equip in the Port of Innilgard, at their own charges, the aforesaid ships with as many mariners, men-at-arms, and bowmen as shall be necessary for their navigation and defence at sea against our enemies, whosoever they may be, and for subduing, capturing, and destroying the same; and liberty to set forth with the same ships, so equipped, upon the sea for the purpose aforesaid. And we will that whatsoever they, Katerina and , succeed in winning, gaining, and having by capture from our enemies aforesaid, they may have and keep for their own proper use, without claim or hindrance by or from us, or our heirs or ministers, or the ministers of any our heirs whatsoever. Provided always that under colour of this licence they, Katerina and , their mariners, men-at-arms, and bowmen aforesaid, neither do nor permit to be done any violence, hindrance, or hurt to any who are in friendship with us.
Witness this 16th day of May.
(based on English Letter of Marque, issued by Henry IV, - 1405).
