1335-05-12, Cowick

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas on 12 July, in the 7th year of the king's reign, it was found by inquisition taken by the then sheriff of Kent that 2 messuages and 24 acres of land in Eldyng, which Thomas de Blakebrok held, who was outlawed for felony, had been . 395 king's hand for a year and a day, and that one messuage and 6 acres of the said land were held of the prior of Tonbregg, and a messuage said tenements of Robert Stace of Mallyng, vicar of Eldyng church, 18 acres of land of the same tenements of Hugh de Audele and his wife, and that certain men had the year, day and wast the king ordered the said sheriff of Kent by divers writs to the prior, vicar, Hugh and Margaret to have full seisin of the messuages and lands; and William de Northo, escheator in cos. Sussex, Kent and Middlesex, has informed the king that William charged [himself], in his account which he rendered exchequer, with 9s. 6d. of the said messuages and lands, delivered by William Trussel, then escheator beyond Trent, before the 12 July, the treasurer and barons intend to charge William with a rent from the said messuages and land from that 12 July ; the king orders them to cause William to be discharged and acquitted in at the exchequer of the said rent or of any other profit from messuages and land, from the 12th July aforesaid if they shall find the messuages and land which the king ordered to be delivered to the vicar, Hugh and Margaret by the sheriff as their escheat, were the tenements with which William previously charged himself with as is said.