1338-02-20, Westminster

To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a mill, 9 virgates and 18 acres of land and 14 acres of meadow in Ogeford St. James and Ogeford St. John, restoring the issues thereof to the abbess of Wylton, as the escheator returned that he had taken these tenements into the king's hands because the abbess had appropriated them to her house without the king's licence, after the publication of the statute of mortmain; and afterwards at the suit of the abbess, showing that the tenements were acquired by former abbesses long before that statute, the king ordered the escheator to take an, inquisition upon, the matter, by which it is found that the tenements were acquired of divers persons by divers abbesses long before the statute, to wit; a messuage and virgate of land in Ogeford St. James of Richard son of Roger de Ogeford, in the time of Henry III by Alice de Perham, then abbess, and a messuage and 4 virgates of land in the same town of Henry Tut, and 2 virgates of land in the same town, of Marcianus son of Baldwin in the time of Henry II, by Matilda de la Mare, then abbess; and a mill and 18 acres of land and 14 acres of meadow in Ogeford St. John of Ralph Hervy in the 4th year of Edward I, and a messuage and 2 virgates of land, and 2 acres of meadow in Ogeford St. James of Ralph Saunzaver, in the 5th year of Edward I, by Juliana Gyffard, then abbess; and that at the time of their acquisition the tenements were held of the abbess by the service of 2s. yearly, and now of the king, and are now worth 8, yearly. . Parr T. 309 To the same.