1323-05-18, Rothwell

Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order not to interfurther with the lands of Simon, now abbot of Aumale, and to restore thereof, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the of the abbey by the death of Nicholas, the last abbot, as it appears late king's rolls of chancery that he, on 2 June, in the 18th year of rendered the lands of the abbey in England to Hugh, then abbot claiming nothing of the issues of the lands, and ordered Thomas then escheator this side Trent, and Master Henry de Bray, beyond Trent, to restore all the issues of the lands to the without delay, because he learned by the testimony of the said that the abbot held his lands in England of the feoffment of the Albemarle and not otherwise of the king in chief, which lands had into his hands upon the death of William, sometime abbot of like to Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent.