1328-10-27, Salisbury

To the same. Order not to intermeddie further with a plot of land in Exeter near the gate of St. Nicholas's priory, and to restore the issues thereof to the prior of St. Nicholas, as the king at the prosecution of the prior suggesting that he and his predecessors, priors of that place, were seised of the said plot from time out of mind as of the right of the priory, upon which plot certain buildings are constructed, and that the escheator has taken the plot into the king's hands by colour of an inquisition of office taken by him, whereby he found that the prior acquired the plot in fee to him and his successors after the publication of the statute of mortmain withont licence from the king or his progenitors ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the said plot, and it is found by the inquisition that the prior and his predecessors had and held the said plot enclosed with a sort of wall as their severalty near their gate aforesaid as the right of their church from time out of mind, and there was a building on the plot, fallen down two years ago, worth yearly 6s. 8d., and that it is held of the king in frankalmoin, and that it was taken into the king's hands for the aforesaid reason and for no other.