1336-02-16, Walsingham

To the same. Order to cause John de Sutton, knight, son and heir of de Sutton-super-Trent, to have the respite which the king has to him, because lately at his suit, asserting that he made a certain for 2,000/. by force and duress, in the late king's chancery, Hugh le Despenser, lord of Glomorgan, the king appointed Roger, bishop Coventry and Lichfield, Thomas de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, and de Berkeleye, baron, appointed to hold pleas before the king with le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold those pleas, to hear John's in the premises together with those justices, and to do justice to him to the form of an agreement made in the late parliament at Westconcerning the annulling of such recognisances made to Hugh by and duress; and because the said affair was pending undiscussed the said bishop, earl, baron and justices, and the said 2,000/, were of John by summons of the exchequer, the king gave him respite the said 2,000/. until the octaves of Hilary last ; and now he has bethe king, to order the exaction of the said 2,000/, to be superseded the discussion of the affair, and the king has granted him respite the quinzaine of Michaelmas next so that he may be able in the meanto prosecute the said affair for the annulling of the recognisance. By C.