1313-10-28, Westminster

To the same. Order to acquit the above Henry of 50 marks, paid by his father when sheriff of Stafford and Salop to Richard le Brun, servant of Henry III., in accordance with the said king's order dated December 8, in the 56th year of his reign, for a fine of that amount made by Richard with John Walerand, then escheator this side Trent, and paid into the said king's wardrobe by the hands of John del Legh, sub-escheator in the county of Stafford, for the custody of the lands of Robert de Mere in Hamechurch and of Robert de Hildedich, which the said king ordered to be paid to him because he did not have these custodies ; which sum they refuse to allow to Henry because his father paid it out of the issues of his bailiwick, and not out of the fines, amercements, and issues of the eyre of Roger de Clifford and his fellows, then justices in eyre for forest pleas in the counties of Stafford and Salop, as ordered by the said king. To Master William de Balaeto, the pope's envoy in England.