1314-11-02, Northampton

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the prior of Bermundeseye of the issues of the priory during the time it was in the late king's hands, who took it into his hands on 24 September, in the 23rd year of his reign, because it was so much in debt that the goods of the house were insufficient to pay its debts, and who committed the custody thereof to David le Grant, clerk, during pleasure, so that he should expend all the issues of the priory, saving the maintenance of the persons without whom the priory could not be ruled, in blocking up the embankment (berce) of the pricry broken (f[7]acte) by inundation of the Thames, whereby the land of the priory and lands about it were at that time submerged, and in other uses of the priory as should seem fit to him, rendering an account yearly to the exchequer of the same, the late king having afterwards, on 13 December, in the 26th year of his reign, taken the fealty of brother Peter de Sancto Simphoriano, monk of that house, whom the prior of La Charité had made prior of Bermundeseye, and restored to him the temporalities, and ordered by his writ William de Carleton, then keeper of the priory, to deliver the temporalities to the said Peter, as appears by the rolls of chancery, the prior having now shewn to the king that the treasurer and barons charge him with the issues of the priory for the time when David had the custody thereof, and for the time when William had the custody, and for the time when the lands of aliens were in the late king's hands by reason of the war between him and the king of France.