1323-06-05, Bishopthorpe

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The proctor of the abbot and convent of Citeaux has shewn to the king certain of the pope's letters under bulls containing that, at the suit of the abbot and convent, suggesting . that the rents and profits of the parish church of Scardeburgh, which is appropriated to them, do not exceed the yearly value of 60 marks, and that the church has been taxed immoderately in the payment of tenths and : the like imposed upon the English churches, as if the rents and profits ' amounted to the yearly value of 160 marks, the pope ordered certain persons to ascertain the true value of the yearly rents of the church, and to cause a moderate taxation to be made accordingly, and to ordain that the church or the abbot and convent or their proctors shall be bound to pay to tenths or the like according to such taxation, and that they shall not be henceforth compelled to pay according to the previous immoderate taxation ; and the execuior of the pope's letters has ascertained by inquisition that the fruits, rents, and profits of the church have decayed from many causes, that they did not then and had not for a long time exceeded the yearly value of 60 marks, and has accordingly taxed the church and its fruits at 60 marks sterling, and has ordained under certain pains that the church or abbot and convent or their proctors shall be bound to pay to tenths and the like according to such taxation, as is contained by the process in the matter sealed by Rigaud, late bishop of Winchester, who was deputed with others by the pope for this matter; the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause the old taxation of 160 marks to be extracted from the rolls of taxation, and to cause the taxation of 60 marks to be enrolled, and to receive from the abbot and convent the tenth for two years imposed upon the clergy and other tenths, contributions, and impositions touching that church according to the taxation of 60 marks. To Thomas Deyvill, keeper of the castle and honour of Pontefract. Order not to molest William de Crull of Swynflet by reason of the security that the king lately ordered the keeper to take from him to answer for the value of his goods and chattels in case they were adjudged to the king, and to acquit him and his pledges, as it appears by the record of the process before the steward and marshals of the king's household concerning the death of William son of James de Swynflet, William his son, and Thomas son of William le Littester of Houeden, wherewith William de Crull was cbarged, that the said William did not make flight.