1296-11-24, Bury St. Edmunds

To the sheriff of Northumberland, the king's bailiff of Tyndale. Order resume into the king's hands the lands that John Comyn of Badenagh of A. bishop of Durham, and to keep them safely until otherwise so that he may answer fully to the exchequer for the issues from the time of the king's first order to take into his hands the of those of Scotland, certifying the king without delay and the and barons of the exchequer on the morrow of St. Hilary next he shall have executed this order, although the king granted to the that the lands of all his tenants who held immediately of him in county that the king caused to be seised into his hands by reason of rebellion should be in the bishop's hands, provided that the lands of under-tenants of such tenants should be restored to the under-tenants, that those under-tenants who held immediately of the said tenants do to the bishop by reason of the lands that they thus held of the tenants the services therefore due and accustomed, until the king otherwise ordain, wherefore the king ordered the sheriff to cause be delivered to the bishop the lands of all his immediate ,tenants in the king's hands, retaining in the king's hands the lands of those are in the king's prison if they held any immediately of the bishop, the sheriff delivered [to the bishop] the lands of the said John, who of the bishop, by reason of the said order, which he had taken into king's hands by pretext of the king's order to take into his hands the of all those of the realm of Scotland having lands in England and Scotland and who do not dwell in the realm of England. . 5