1338-12-13, Byfleet
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to permit John de Barneby and le Westerne, executors of the will of Eleanor le Despenser, late of the will of William la Zouche of Mortimer, her husband, to a cart and divers goods and chattels therein which belonged to as at their suit, showing that the cart and goods had been by the king's ministers and the men of Henle at Henle, and the king to provide a remedy, the king ordered the sheriff take an inquisition upon the matter, and by the inquisition taken the bailiffs of the liberty of Henle of John de Molyns, who have the of all the king's writs and the execution of the same in that it is found that on Thursday before Christmas in the second of the reign William wished to send the cart and his goods by Priour his carter, from Caversham to London, and_ there a strife in passing through Henle between John and others by whom he was pursued, and fleeing from the town in fear death, he left the cart with the goods in the hostel of Thomas de at Henle without any guard, and they are in Thomas's hands. By C.
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