1322-01-06, Worcester

To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to take into the king's hands without delay the priory of Hereford and all its possessions and appurtenances, moveable aud immoveable, as tle king understauds that contention has arisen between brother William de Irby, prior of the aforesaid priory, acknowledging the priory to be of the foundation of the alms of the king's progenitors, and that he holds the priory of the king's advowson, and brother Thomas de Burghhull, who has intruded himself into the priory, which he claims to hold of the advowson and foundation of others than the king's progenitors, by which contention the priory is so much destroyed and impoverished that its goods are insufficient to maintain the charges and works of piety ordained for the souls of the king's ancestors, for which purposes the priory was founded and annexed to the abbey of Gloucester, which is of the foundation of the king's ancestors. By K.