1331-04-22, Wingham

execution of the aforesaid writ, and to resume the tenements into the king's hands in case he had already delivered seisin thereof, and to summon John to be in chancery in three weeks from Easter last to inform the king concerning his right, and the king gave the same day to the abbot; at which day the escheator returned that he had delivered seisin before receipt of the writ, and that after he saw the writ, he had resumed the tenements into the King's hands, and that he had summoned John to be in chancery on the said day: as John did not appear on that day and the aforesaid brother Richard, general-attorney of the abbot, came and proferred part of the said fine and the deed aforesaid as evidence of the abbot's right, and sought to have the tenements rendered to him, the king orders the escheator to deliver them to the abbot or his aforesaid attorney, together with the issues received therefrom, To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. Adam de Lymbergh, the late king's constable of Bordeaux, has shewn the king that the king is indebted to him in 2,624/. Os 9d. for divers victuals provided by him for the late king's use in the duchy [of Aquitaine], a appears by a bill under the seal of Roger de Waltham, keeper of the said king's wardrobe, and in 510. 18s. 4d. sterling for his wages and expenses for the time when he was in the late king's service, and in 368J. 16s. 6d. and half a poges of petits Tournois for the wages of himself and certain clerks and divers arnied men, horsemen and footmen, whom he held in the Inte king's services in the duchy by the order of Edmund, late earl of Kent, supplying the place of the said king there, and for certain expenses about certain works done by him by the earl's orders at La Reole (Heulam) at the time of its siege, and also for recompence for a horse lost in the said king's service, as appears by divers bills under the seal of John Travers, late constable of Bordeanx, and in 450 pounds of petits Tournois for recompence for certain of his horses lost in the said king's service in those parts, as appears by bills under the seal of Nicholas de Hugate, receiver of the said king's moneys and victuals in the said parts, and in 18/. sterling and 50 pounds of petits Tournois for recompence for two horses of his lost in the said king's service in those parts, as appears by a letter patent of Ralph Basset, the said king's seneschal in Gascony, under the seal of the court of Gascony, in Adam's possession, for which sums he has not received any payment, and he has besought the king to order allowance to be made for these sums in his account at the exchequer for the time when he was constable or in other debts due from him to the king: the king therefore orders them to examine the bills and letter aforesaid, and to cause allowance to be made therefore to Adam as above for what they shall find to be due to him. By pet of C. To Almaric de Credonio.