1335-03-27, Nottingham

To Robert Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, and Buckingham. The king has been besought by the sub-prior convent of Merton, that (although they and their predecessors received all the issues of the temporalities of that priory during every from time out of mind without the king and his progenitors receiving from the temporalities at such times, or in any way intermeddling yet the escheator received and levied all the issues of the temof the priory now void by the death of brother William, the last from the time of his death, not permitting the sub-prior and convent dispose thereof or in any way to intermeddle therewith) the king will pleased to order the issues so received to be delivered to the sub-prior and and to permit them to receive such issues from these temporalities, hindrance, during the said voidance ; the king therefore orders the to take an inquisition upon the matter as the king wishes to be whether the sub-prior and convent have received such issues a voidance; and if the sub-prior and convent shall find sufficient to answer to the king for the issues of the priory in the present if they ought to belong to the king, then to deliver to them all the received from the time of the late prior's death, permitting them to and dispose of all such issues during the said voidance, without hincertifying the treasurer and barons of the exchequer concerning that By K. and , The like to the following escheators, to wit : Ralph de Middelneye, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall and Devon. By K. and C. Robert de Holewell, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. By K. and C. Reginald de Conductu, mayor of London, escheator in that city. By K. and C. Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Rutland. By K. and C. William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex. By K. and C.