1337-01-15, Hertford

To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a forge of the abbey of Waltham Holy Cross in. Wormele, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot, as the escheator returned that he had not taken that forge into the king's hands, but that Robert de Holewell, late escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford, delivered it to him by indenture, asserting that Reginald, formerly abbot of that place, had acquired the plot, where the forge is constructed, after the publication of the statute of mortmain, without the king's licence ; and afterwards, at the suit of the abbot, showing the king that abbot Reginald had acquired the plot long before the said statute, and beseeching the king to cause the forge to be restored to him, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that abbot Reginald acquired the plot long before the publication of the said statute, and the forge was erected thereupon, and the plot is of the lordship of the abbot and is worth 6d. yearly. 16. To Richard de la Pole, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his Tower. place in the port of Southampton.