1322-06-23, York

To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to Matilda de Pipe, now abbess of Pollesworth, concerning the issues the temporalities of the abbey during the time of voidance caused by the of Enerburga (sic) de Hardeshull, the late abbess, concerning which king lately ordered him to continue until the quinzaine of St. John the next the security made by the nuns of the said house to answer to king for the issues thereof during the voidance in case the issues ought pertain to him, as it appears by the rolls of the late king's chancery that on 21 May, in the 29th year of his reign, at the suit of the nuns of the abbey shewing that he ought not to receive anything of the issues of abbey by reason of the voidance thereof, and that neither he nor his had received anything during voidance, ordered the treasurer barons of his exchequer to examine the rolls of the exchequer conthis matter and to certify him of what they found, and they signified him that, having examined the aforesaid rolls of the time of Master de Clifford, Master Henry de Bray, and Malculin de Harleye, escheator beyond Trent, and of the time of Richard de Hellebrok, the late king's steward beyond Trent, in whose times the abbey many times void, they did not find in their accounts that they received answered for anything by reason of the voidance of the said abbey, wherethe late king ordered Walter de Gloucestre, then escheator beyond to restore to Erneburga de Hardeshull, elected abbess of that place, issues of the temporalities of the abbey that he might have received, late king having taken her fealty and restored to her the temporalities the house.