1329-07-15, Chichester

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the tenements specified below, and to permit the master of the house of Ospreng to receive the rent named below, and to restore any issues received from the tenements, as the king at the prosecution of the said master, suggesting that Peter, formerly master of that house, demised at fee-ferm to Thomas le Keu 15 acres of land in Ospreng forty years ago, rendering therefor to the master eight quarters of barley, and also to the abbot of L Ile Dieu a messuage and 15 acres of land in Opchirche for a term of years for eight loads of barley to be rendered to the master, and that, although the tenements were demised at their true value, so that the demise was not to the damage of the king or avy other, or to the diminution of the estate of the house, the escheator has taken the lands into the king's hands by reason of such demise, detaining them so that the master could not receive the rent aforesaid ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition that the aforesaid Peter, in 15 Edward I., demised to Thomas 154 acres of land in Ospreng, to him and his heirs for ever, rendering therefor to Peter and his successors 8 quarters of barley, and that the said Peter granted and demised to the abbot of St. Mary's, L Ile Dieu, in the year 1289, 8 acres of land in the town of Opchirche for a term of 100 years, rendering therefor to the master and his successors 4 quurters of barley, aud that Alexander, late master of the said house, in the year 1309 demised to the said abbot and his successors a messuage and 100 acres of land in Opchirche for the term of 80 years, rendering therefor to the master and his successors 4 quarters of barley yearly, and that the tenements in Ospreng are held of the king in gavelkende as of the manor of Ospreng by suit at the said manor from three weeks to three weeks, and that the tenements in Opchirke (sic) are held of the king in gavelkende as of the manor of Midd in frankalmoin, except three acres thereof, which are held of Jobn de Broke by the service of 12d. yearly, and that all the tenements are worth nothing beyond the rent aforesaid, and that the demise of the tenements is not to the damage of the king or any one else or to the diminution of the estate of the said house,