1335-06-18, Northallerton

Adam de Wyleby, escheator in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Stafford, and the march of Wales adjoining. Order not to interfurther with the custody of the abbey of Cirencester, void by the of Richard, the last abbot, or with the manors or other things belonging to the abbey, restoring the issues thereof to the prior without any diminution, provided that a simple seisin shall be the gates of the abbey in the name of the king's royal lordship, the king's great grandfather (sic) on 10 December in the of his reign, granted to the then abbot and convent of Cirencester, prior and convent of that place and their successors, in every voidhave the custody of the abbey and of the temporalities thereof as the abbot and convent were wont to have them in past times when was filled, so that the prior and convent should have full and free of the said temporalities and goods, and should dispose and thereof as they should see fit, saving to the said king and his heirs fees which are held of the abbey, and the advowsons when during a voidance, but so that all rents and yearly services of the during voidances, shall remain to the prior and convent, saving to the and his heirs the escheats which should fall in during a voidance, escheats, when the voidances are finished, to wit, after the fealty of shall be elected and confirmed abbot, has been made to the said his heirs, shall remain to the abbot, prior and convent without let or of the king, rendering to the king LOO/. within three months for of the abbey if it shall endure for three months or less, and endure for more than three months, then the prior and convent to the king 100J. for the next completed three months, and 1002, other three months, and pro rata for every part of three months the voidance ; and the said king granted that the prior and convent have the custody of the abbey, etc., in the said form so that no sheriff, bailiff, or minister of the king, should intermeddle with the custody abbey, of its manors or other goods during a voidance, except that or other minister of the king for the time being should take seisin within the gates of the abbey at the beginning of each voidthe name of the king's lordship, and that done, shonld immediately without taking or carrying away anything, so that he should not stay than one day by reason of that seisin, nor substitute any one place; and the said king also granted that if he or his heirs should an army to be summoned in any time of voidance of the abbey, and convent should not be bound for their own demes.es and the knights fees of the said abbey, then in their hands, for service in that army, nor be molested for that reason, but should be quit thereof, saving only to the said king and his heirs the services of the knights fees which are held of the abbey in time of voidance pertaining to the said king by reason of the said army.