1338-01-28, Berwick-on-

Order to permit the in of Ledes to have the custody of their house, void by the death - of brother Robert de Maidenstan, the late prior, and to permit them ; to have the administration of all things touching it, and not to intermeddle further therewith, according to the tenor of their charter, J restoring to the canons the issues thereof, provided that they . Parr I. 295 to the king during the voidance, for the issues of lands which are held in chief, acquired after the charter, Robert son of Hamo de Crevequer, the younger, granted the canons by charter that they should have such custody administration in every voidance, with free power to a prior, without Robert's consent, saving only to Robert presentation of the prior elect, and Edward I, after he the right of patronage of the priory by the enfeoffment of Robert, the said grant; and Walter de Gloucestr ia], then escheator side Trent, the priory being void by the resignation of brother de Maidenstan, then prior, entered the priory and took the thereof into the king's hands, as if the custody pertained the king, who granted that the said intrusion should not be made precedent to the prejudice of the canons.