1336-10-25, Berwick-on-

William Trussel, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle the priory of Repyndon or with the temporalities thereof by reason of present voidance, always saving the fealty of the future prior, if any is to the king, restoring the issues thereof to the sub-prior and convent, that a simple seisin is taken in the priory in the name of the lordship, because the king learned by inquisition taken by Henry de and William de Gotham that Ranulph, earl of Chester and lord manor of Repyndon, founded that priory in frankalmoin, and that manor with the advowson of the priory descended after the earl's death four daughters as to one heir and that the advowson of the priory assigned to Matilda, one of the said daughters and heirs, to hold in her and that the right of the said advowson after Matilda's death from heir to heir to John de Bailliolo, who afterwards forfeited to I, and it descended to him lineally and by heredity, and that John his ancestors, whenever the priory became void, sent a bailiff to the to take a simple seisin by reason of his lordship without taking any or profits there, and when the priory became void in John's time, before his forfeiture, by the death of Robert de Staunton then prior the sub-prior and convent sought from John licence to elect another which licence being granted and obtained they elected Ralph de canon and fellow brother, to be prior of the house, and that the 1s void by Ralph's death, and the advowson, which came into the of Edward I. by forfeiture, belongs to the king, and the sub-prior . 626 convent to whom the king gave licence to elect a new prior after death, have besought the king to order his hand to be amoved from priory. By C.