Editing Pandulf Verraccio (section)

== Handling of Brigandage ==
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Pandulf is known to have sent a letter to [[Peter des Roches]] (who was bishop of Winchester) between 1218 and 1221 urgently requesting action against rampant brigandage on the roads near [[Winchester]] (one of the largest cities of England at the time). He wrote:

My lord bishop, the complaints of the poor and of women ought especially to move you, that nobody can travel near Winchester without being held up, robbed, and worst of all—should there not be enough goods on them—people are being killed. Truly, because this sort of thing is a disgrace to the lord king, and to you, and it is going on to the scandal and disorder of the whole kingdom, we ask, advise and firmly instruct your wisdom, as you value the forgiveness of your sins, that you cause this business to be sorted out, so that we hear no further complaints.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Lost letters of medieval life: English society, 1200-1250 |date=2013 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-4459-5 |editor-last=Carlin |editor-first=Martha |edition=1st |series=The Middle Ages series |location=Philadelphia |editor-last2=Crouch |editor-first2=David}}</ref>