1328-10-16, Salisbury

To John Mautravers, keeper of the manor of Boyton, which belonged to John Giffard of Brymmesfeld, tenant in chief of the late king, in the king's hands by reason of his death. Order to pay to Agnes Giffard, a nun of Wilton, the arreare of 39s. of yearly rent from that manor, and to pay her the rent hereafter for so long as the manor shall be in his custody, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Philip de la Beche that John Giffard, on Sunday afler St. Mark, 11 Edward IT, granted the said rent by charter to Agnes for life, and that he charged payment thereof upon all his lands in Boyton that Thomas du Boys and Henry le Carter held of him at will, and that Agnes was seised of the rent from the time of the grant, as well by the hands of Thomas and Henry whilst the lands were in their hands as afterwards by the hands of the keepers of the lands when the manor was in the late king's hands, until the Purification, in the first year of the king's reign, since which time the rent is in arrear to her, and that she did not change her estate therein in any way.