1329-03-18, Wycombe

Monte, Lady of Vesci (de Veciaco), during the heir's minority by the king's grant, without consulting the king, as the king is given to understand by Isabella that John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, has arramed an assize of novel disseisin before them against the heir and others named in the original writ concerning a tenement in Castelacre, which was taken into the late king's hands by reason of the earl's death and which is in Isabella's ouetey sy C. To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the temporalities of St. Edmund's abbey, and to permit the prior and convent to have the custody thereof without hindrance, restoring to them any issues thereof, as the prior and convent have shewn the king that they ought to have the custody of the abbey during voidance according to the grant of Edward I., of 20 May, in the 32nd year of his reign, by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, and that brother Richard, the abbot, has been lately captured by some of his enemies at Chevynton, co. Suffolk, and has been taken thence to places unknown, and that, although they have no certain knowledge of the abbot's life or death, the escheator and his ministers have entered certain manors and lands of the temporalities of the abbey, pretending that the abbot is dead, and the prior and convent have prayed that they may have the custody of the temporalities aforesaid, on condition that they shall answer for the voidance according to the grant of Edward I. if the abbot be dead, and that the issues and profits thereof, if he be living, shall-remain to the abbot, prior, and convent. By .