1335-12-03, Auckland

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas on 3 November, jn the 8th year of the king's reign, it being found by inquisition taken by Wiiliam de Northo, late escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Middlesex, that Margaret de Lenham held at her death the manor of Huntyngdon, co. Kent, in the archbishopric of Canterbury, lately void and in the king's hands, by the service of a knight's fee and of making suit at the great court of the archbishop of Canterbury once yearly, and that Eleanor de Lenham, whom John Gyffard married is her next heir and of full age ; and because on 5 February in the same year the king took the fealty of J. now archbishop of that place and restored the temporalities of the archbishopric to him, the king ordered the said escheator to deliver the said manor to John Giffard and Eleanor; the king has given John and Eleanor reapite until the Ascension next for rendering their account for the issues of that manor for the time when it was in the king's hands by Margaret's death, and orders the treasurer and barons to cause them to have that respite, and to supersede the demand made upon the said escheator or upon the present escheator in those counties, in his account, for rendering the said issues to the king and to supersede the process against John, Eleanor, or the said escheators for the said cause, releasing them from any distraint made for that cause. By C. . 535