1323-07-14, Burstwick

To the abbot of St. Nicholas, Angers, or to his proctor in England, The and convent of Spalding, in the diocese of Lincoln, have shewn to the that whereas a composition was made between their predecessors and abbot's predecessors, whereby the prior and convent agreed to pay to abbot a yearly pension of 40/. to cherish peace between them, and for abbot's expenses by reason of the visitation and the profession of the and the election of the prior to be made at Spalding ; and although all tenths, charges, and impositions imposed by the church of Rome upon clergy of this realm, and in such grants made hy the clergy to the king his progenitors, the said 40/. [has been taxed] to the aforesaid charges, the charges have been hitherto allowed to the prior and convent in the of the 40/., the abbot now refuses to allow them for other tenths charges than those imposed upon them by the pope, and endeavours to them by ecclesiastical censure to make full payment; and as it by the memoranda of the king's court that the aforesaid pension is taxed to the tenth and other charges and impositions; the king orders the abbot to allow the said tenth and other charges to the prior and convent in the payment of the pension as they have been usually allowed to them heretofore. To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Eleanor, late the wife of Guy Ferre, the manor of Benhale, co, Suffolk, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Guy's death and the issues thereof from the time of Guy's death, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Guy and Eleanor held the manor jointly by fine levied in the king's court to them and the heirs of their bodies, so that if Guy died without an heir of his and Eleanor's bodies, the manor should remain to Simon de la Borde and the heirs of his body, with remainder in default of such heirs to William de Sancto Quintino and his heirs, and that the manor is partly held of the king in chief as of the honour of Eve by knight service and partly of other lords by divers services, and that Guy died without an heir of his body.