1331-06-02, Bury St. Edmunds

To the justiciary and chancellor of Ireland, for the time being or to come, and to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. The prior and friars of the Carmelite order of Ardee (de atrio Dei) in Ireland have shewn the king that Ralph Pipard, deceased, granted to them by his charter certain alms, such as in wheat, malt, aud other things, to be received yearly from his manor of Ardee, and they received the alms from the time of the making of the charter until the time when Ralph enfeoffed Edward I. of the manor and of other his lands, and the said king, at the prosecution of the prior and brethren, asserting that the alms bad been withdrawn from them from the time when the manor came to his hands, ordered the treasurer and chamberlains of the aforesaid exchequer to cause the alms to be estimated at their yearly value, and to cause the valu to be paid to the brethren out of the treasury yearly, and that they received 6/. at the exchequer of Dublin, being the value of the alms as estimated by information by the council of Edward J. in Ireland, yearly in the time of the said king and in the time of the late king, and afterwards by the hands . Parr I. 239 de Bermyngham, late earl of Louthe, to whom the late king granted manor, and that the said 6/. yearly have been withheld from them the time of the earl's death, because the manor came to the king's with the earl's other lands by reason of the minority of his heir, and have besought the king to cause the arrears from the earl's death to be to them, and to cause the said sum to be paid to them henceforth for as the manor shall remain in his hands: the king therefore orders to search the rolls and memoranda of the said exchequer of the time father and grandfather, and if they find that the said 6/. yearly were to the prior and brethren, and that they received this sum yearly from earl for the time when he held the manor, to pay to them the arrears of sum yearly from the time when the manor came to the king's hands, to pay them the same yearly henceforth. By ps.