1335-09-12, Edinburgh

To the sheriff of York. Because the king has learned that divers men that county who were for some time bailiffs of Hugh le Despenser elder, a rebel, at divers of his manors in that county, and receivers of money there, were bound to render to him divers accounts for such and that the said accounts, which ought to be rendered to the by reason of Hugh's forfeiture, are still unrendered to the king's 3 chiefly because no satisfaction has been made for the debts which belong to the king of the arrears of those accounts if they were ; the king orders the sheriff, having taken information concerning names of those who were bailiffs and receivers, as aforesaid, to cause who are surviving to come with their rolls, tallies and other memotouching such accounts before the treasurer and barons of the exat the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, to render to the king the accounts, and further to do and receive what shall be ordained in this The sheriffs of Lincoln and Northampton, have like orders to cause the and receivers of Hugh le Despenser the younger in their counties come before the treasurer and barons at the same quinzaine.