1335-08-12, Perth

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John and Walter de Creyk to have respite until All Saints next, for f extent of the lands which belonged to John de Burdeleys, tenant in so that in the meantime the king, being more fully informed concernthat affair, may cause what is right to be done, and in the meantime shall cause John and Walter to be released from any distraint made that reason, as John Fraunceys has shown the king that whereas the lately committed the custody of the said lands to Walter, which lands in the king's hands by reason of the minority of John, son and of John de Burdeleys, to hold until that heir should come of age, to the king yearly the extent of these lands, and although Jobn de long before his death granted all t .e lands which he held . 523 of the king in chief together with other lands which belonged to him in Cumberton and Cotenbainm to John Fraunceys and Thomas de Pateshull, now deceased, by the king's licence; and Thomas and John were seised of those lands by virtue of the said gift, and continued in seisin thereof until Thomas's death, and John was seised thereof from the time of Thomas's death until now, and sues before Walter in chancery to revoke the king's said commission, yet the said extent is exacted of him from the time of the said commission on the said lands for the king's use; and John Fraunceys is daily distrained and disquieted for this cause, wherefore he has besought the king to cause such exactions and distraints to be superseded. By C.