1334-01-26, Voodstock

manors and lands to the said Nicholas, together with the issues and arrears, of ferm of the same for which answer had not been made to the late king, to be held as Nicholas had held them before they were taken into the king's learning from Adam that although he had delivered the said manors, etc. to Nicholas, and had rendered a final account to him for the issues for which answer had not been made to the late king, and had satisfied Nicholas for those issues by virtue of the king's orders, upon which the said Nicholas released him from all actions in respect of the same, as may fully appear by Nicholas's letters of acquittance, yet the treasurer and barons exacted 150/. 10s. for the arrears of Adam's account, rendered, as is said, in the late king's chamber, for the issues of the said manors and of the manors of Berleye and Tempelhurst for the time when he was keeper of those manors; and he had no respite for the arrears touching the manors of Hathelseye and Carleton, for which he had satisfied the said Nicholas by the king's order, which were exacted from Adam without remission by summons of the exchequer, and the treasurer and barons caused him to be distrained therefor ordered the treasurer and barons to cause Adam to be discharged and acquitted of the said arrears which they shall find him to owe the king by reason of the manors of Hathelseye and Carleton, and from rendering his account therefor at the exchequer, according to the agreement made in parliament at Westminster in the 1st year of the king's reign, or to inform the king if there was any reason why they should not obey that order, and the treasurer and barons returned that the said order had not been executed as regards the discharging of Adam of the arrears touching the manors of Hathelseye and Carleton because it was found by inspection of the particulars of the said account, and of other rolls and memoranda of the exchequer touching the same, that the said 150/. 10s. are exacted from Adam for the arrears of his account rendered in the late king's chamber for the issues of the said four manors, in common, for divers years, so that for this reason they cannot find by inspection of the particulars, rolls and memoranda how much Adam is indebted to the king for the said arrears by reason of the manors of Hathelseye and Carleton, and because it seemed to them that they could not proceed to such a discharge unless an apportionment of the said 1501. 10s. of those common arrears was made between the said manors; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to view his previous writ and the accounts and the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer touching these four manors, having regard to the yearly value of each of them, and to the sums answered for yearly on them by such accounts, and to apportion the sum of 150/. 10s. among the four manors according to their discretion, and to cause Adam to be discharged and acquitted of the arrears of the manors of Hathelseye and Carleton by this apportionment according to the above agreement, provided that Adam answer to the king, as he ought, for the arrears touching the manors of Berleye and Tempelhurst, according to the same apportionment. To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, 404 acres of land, a pasture for two horses and eight oxen, and 7s. 4d. rent in Hampton and Atheryngton, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot of Séez (Sagio), as at the prosecution of the abbot, showing the king that the said lands and rent had been acquired by his predecessors long before the publication of the statute of mortmain, and John de Hawe, late escheator in the said counties, pretending that the abbot had acquired them after the publi- . 195 of that statute, without obtaining the necessary licence from the king, into the king's hands by reason of that trespass, the king ordered de Northe to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it was that Robert, sometime abbot of Séez, acquired that messuage, land of John de Bobun, knight, and the rent of Peter de Malewho held them of the abbot by certain services, before the of that statute, to wit, in the time of Henry ITI.