1335-03-20, Coventry

To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Order not to intermeddle further with a messnage, 34 bovates land and 4 acres of meadow in Scampton, restoring the issues thereof the abbot and convent of Kirkestede, as the escheator signified to the that he had taken the said messuage, land and meadow into the hand by reason of a certain trespass which the abbot and convent in acquiring those tenements for their house after the publication of statute of mortmain without obtaining the king's licence; and afterat the prosecution of the abbot and convent, showing the king that said tenements had been acquired for their house long before the pubof that statute and not afterwards, the king ordered the escheator take an inquisition on the matter, by which it was found that a abbot of Kirkestede, predecessor of the present abbot, acquired said tenements for his house of John Knyght of Scampton seven years the publication of the said statute, and that at the time of that the tenements were held of the said abbot by the service of yearly, and now the present abbot holds them of Henry de Bello and they are worth 2s. yearly beyond the said rent in all issues.