1323-01-12, Cowick

To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with two messuages and 6 acres of land, a water-mill and an acre of alder-holt in Stowemarket, and to restore the issues thereof : to the abbot of St. Osyth s, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Adam de Mynton of Stowemarket formerly held the messuages j and land of the said abbot in fee to himself and his heirs by the service of be 4d. yearly, and that a certain abbot of St. Osyth s acquired the messuages and land from Adam sixty years or more ago, before the publication of the - statute of mortmain, and that the abbot demised them to Adam for life, and that the abbot and his predecessors were seised from time out of mind of a aT of water-mill and an acre of aider-holt in the same town, and that he demised them to Adam for life at a yearly rent of 20s., and that the abbot entered . 625 aforesaid after Adam's death, the escheator having taken into the king's hands, pretending that the abbot had acquired them publication of the aforesaid statute.