1341-01-08, Melrose
To Hugh Bouscy, late sheriff of Sussex. Order to amove the king's hand without delay from the lands, goods and chattels of Andrew Peverel, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to him, as the king ordered Andrew upon pain of forfeiture to be in chancery on Monday after St. Andrew last, to do what should be enjoined upon him by the chancellor and others of the council, and because he did not come the king ordered Hugh to take him and have him in chancery on the . Parr 3. 333 of Epiphany last, to answer for his disobedience and further to do what the king's council should determine, and to cause all his goods and chattels to be seized into the king's hand, answering to therefor at the exchequer, and Andrew came before the king on morrow saying that he was ready to do what should be enjoined by the council and asserted on oath that he had never received writ. By C. the sheriff of Worcester.
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