1331-06-08, Norwich
William de Tatham, steward of the king's lands in Blakeburnshire, and receiver there. Whereas Henry de Lacy, late earl of granted by his letters patent, which Edward I. confirmed by his patent, to the abbot and convent of Kirkestall and their successors he would pay to them 80 marks yearly at his exchequer of Pontefract lands and rents in Acrington, Cliveacher, and Hunecotes, in that and La Roundehaye, Secroft, and Shadewell, in co. York, which quit-claimed to him, to wit for the lands in co. Lancaster and for the lands in co. York 30 marks, which 80 marks the abbot his predecessors received all the time of the earl and afterwards all the of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and in the times of the late king and Isabella, in whose hands the lands aforesaid were entirely, and from the lands in co. Lancaster, now in William's custody, are in for Whitsun term last after the lands in co, Lancaster came to the hands by Queen Isabella's surrender, and the abbot has besought the to order payment of the said 25 marks thus in arrear and of the said 50 marks yearly henceforth to be made to him: the king therefore orders William, if the said 25 marks be in arrear, to pay them to the abbot, and to pay to the abbot the said 50 marks henceforth for so long as William shall have the custody of the lands aforesaid.
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