1329-01-23, Henry Eltham

To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the amends, gift, and aid specified below, and to restore any issues received thence to the abbot of Cirencestre, as the king lately ordered the escheator to certify him of the cause for taking the abbot's lands, goods and chattels in Cokham into the king's hands, and the escheator returned that William Trussel, the late escheator this side Trent, delivered to him at the time of his substitution in that office, amongst other things, the amends of the assize of bread and ale let at ferm (affirmatas) for 2s. yearly and a gift called frithborghselver arrented at 2s. yearly, and an aid called wardeselver arrented at 74d. yearly, . 505 that they were issuing from the abbot's tenants in Cokham and were in the king's hands because the abbot and convent had and appropriated them to themselves, they being of the appurteof the hundred of Cokham, without the king's licence, and the present distrained the abbot by his goods and chattels there found to to the king for the ferm and rent aforesaid, because the escheator therewith, and the king, wishing to be certified concerning the ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning them, and it by the inquisition that the abbot and his predecessors have had, been wont to have, from time out of mind view of frankpledge of the assize of bread and ale from their men and tenants and all other things pertaining to such view, free and quit of all and ferm to the king or others, as of the right of their church, the abbot did not appropriate such amends, gift, and aid of the of the king's hundred aforesaid, and that they were not let at arrented at any time before the said William took them into his and were not exacted from, or paid by, the abbot or bis predecessors men and tenants.