1329-05-28, Wingham

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the abbey of Nottele or with its possessions or goods, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king at the prosecution of the prior and convent thereof, suggesting that the abbey was founded by Walter Giffard, late earl of Buckingham, and that the advowson thereof devolved by right of inheritance upon Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, John de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, and Laurence son of John de Hastyng, and that Walter or his heirs afterwards did not receive any profit from the issues of the abbey upon any voidance thereof, and did not intermeddle therewith in any way, except that they were wont to place a gatekeeper at the outer gate of the abbey in the name of lordship, and that the king's progenitors were not wont to have the custody of the abbey or to receive any profit therefrom in times past, and that the escheator had entered the . 465 after the death of John, the last abbot, and had levied the issues for the king's use unjustly and otherwise than was usual heretothe escheator to enquire to whom the advowson of the pertained, etc., and the king learns by the inquisition that the pertains to the said earls aud to Laurence by right of inheritance, that upon each voidance they ought to receive jointly the elect to the abbacy, and ought to have during each voidance a gatekeeper or gateat the outer door of the abbey, and that they were not wont to receive issues or profits at any time past, and ought not of right to receive any, also that neither the king nor his progenitors were wont to receive anyin the past in time of voidance by escheat or otherwise. Witness: de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm.