1377-06-01, Westminster

any issues of the temporalities of the abbey in time of vacancies, and that no answer was made for the temporalities thereof in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Herefordshire from 10 January at the end of 1 Edward III and beginning of 2 Edward III, on which day the abbey was first void by the death of Nicholas the last abbot, to 16 January following, on the date aforesaid the late king commanded divers escheators to meddle no further with the temporalities of the abbey, which they had taken into the king's hand by reason of that vacancy, delivermg to the prior and convent any issues thereof taken.