1335-04-20, Clipston

William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the of Merton permitting the sub-prior and convent to dispose of those and to receive the issues thereof without hindrance as they their predecessors were always wont to receive them in times past, the issues to the sub-prior and convent, provided that there shall deputed by the escheator to stay for the custody of the priory during the voidance, because the king has learned by inquisition taken the escheator at the voidance of that priory by the death of brother the immediate predecessor of the present prior, that the sub-prior convent of that place have hitherto disposed of the temporalities of that at will and have always received all the issues thereof in every from time out of mind, without the king or his ministers receiving from those temporalities or intermeddling therewith, except that king's escheators for the time being entered the priory immediately the death of a prior and placed a certain man to guard the outer gate, is called the great gate of the priory, in the king's name, to stay during that voidance without receiving anything except his reasonable