1329-05-29, Wingham

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to amove the king's hand from the manor of Erde, co. Kent, and to permit S. archbishop of Canterbury to dispose of it, and to deliver to him any issues received thence, as the archbishop has shewn the king that he has, and he and his predecessors have always had from time out of mind, the custodies of fees held of the archbishopric after the death of the tenants thereof, and the profits thereof, during the minority of the tenants heirs, without the king's ministers intermeddling therewith, although such tenants held of the king elsewhere in chief, and that the escheator has nevertheless taken into the king's hands the said manor, which John de Sancto Johanne of Basyng, tenant in chief, held of the archbishop by the service of two knights fees and by doing service to the archbishop's court of Otteford from three weeks to three weeks, as appears by the inquisition taken by the escheator, by reason of John's death, levying and collecting the issues and profits thereof for the king's use, and it appears by the rolls of the king's progenitors that the archbishop's predecessors had such custodies in times past. Witness: John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm.