1324-02-26, Fulham

Order to expend up to 20 marks in repairing the houses and towers of Exeter castle, by the view and testimony of John de Shireford and Thomas de Witteney. By bill of the treasurer. To Anthony de Lucy, keeper of the lands of Andrew de Harcla,a late rebel, in co. Cumberland. Whereas at the prosecution of the abbot of St. Mary's York, suggesting that Simon, formerly abbot of that place, granted by deed indented, which the king has inspected, to Michael de Harcla, knight, a certain place of the said abbot's called Kyrkandres, with the wood and lands adjoining, which lands and wood Adam son of Swain and Alexander de Creuquer gave in frankalmoin to the said abbey and to the monks of Holy Trinity and St. Constantine of Wederhale, together with an appurtenance ( pendenti) in Neubiggyng called Iterertobank, and with a cultura of land that the said abbot Simon had in Neubiggyng, to have and to hold to the said Michaei and Joan his wife, and to Michael's heirs, rendering therefor yearly to the prior of the abbot's cell of Wederhale 40s. yearly for all exactions and demands, saving to the monks aforesaid the great and small tithes of the said place and lands with the usual obventions, and that although the present abbot and his predecessors have been always seised of the aforesaid rent from the time of the said deed by the hands of the aforesaid Andrew and of the said Michael, his father, the abbot has not obtained payment thereof from the time when the tenements aforesaid came to the king's hands with the other lands of the said Andrew by his forfeiture, the king many times ordered the aforesaid keeper to pay the arrears to the abbot and to pay the rent to him as long as the lands remain in his custody, and the keeper has returned that all the things contained in the king's writ relating to the graut of the said place of Kirkandres and the wood and lands adjoining are true, and that the abbot was seised of the aforesaid rent from the time of the grant until the time when the tenements came to the king's hands, and that he could not satisfy the abbot for the arrears of the rent or for the rent because the said place with the adjoining lands is now worth less than 10s. yearly, and was not worth more than 20s. yearly in the time of the aforesaid abbot Simon, Michael, or Andrew, but that as the said place with wood and adjoining lands was near a certain town of Michael's called Colgayth and was convenient for habitation and to chase there, Michael [built] there a house for himself and his heirs, therefore Michael rented the place with the woods (ste) and lands adjoining for 40s. yearly as aforesaid ; the king, being unwilling that wrong should be done to the abbot concerning the said rent, and considering that the value of the place and land aforesaid are insufficient for payment of the rent, orders the keeper to deliver the place and land to the abbot in reeompence for the said rent, to be held at the king's pleasure. By C. To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Rutland, Order not to intermeddle further with the priory of Depyng, or with the temporalities, moveables, or other things pertaining to the priory by reason of the voidance of the abbey of Thorneye, of which it is a cell, and to restore to the prior any issues received therefrom, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that the escheator or other minister of the king or his progenitors never intermeddled with the temporalities or other goods pertaining to the priory by reason of the voidance of the abbey, and that there is not in the . 67 anything temporal, but that the whole is spiritual, and the treasurer, and chamberlains cf the exchequer, whom the king ordered to the exchequer rolls of his time and of kings Richard, John, III., and Edward I., have not found that anything was answered for king or his progenitors for the temporalities or moveables pertaining priory in the times when the temporalities of the abbey were in the of his progenitors or in his hands by reason of voidance. like to Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent.