1324-09-26, Porchester

To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and six acres land in Sutton in Holand, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king, the petition of the prior of Spaldyng , suggesting that a certain prior of place in the time of Henry III. entered the said messuage and land, Richard son of Ellen, then his villein, had previously acquired in fee Richard Lefsy, as tenements acquired to the prior by his villein aforeand had acquired in fee 14s. of rent in Spaldyng long before the of the statute of mortmain from Richard Cluny, and that the had taken the messuage, land, and rent into the king's hands it was found by an inquisition of office taken before him that the had acquired them after the publication of the statute of mortmain licence from the late or the present king, ordered the escheator to inquisition concerning the acquisition of the messuage, land, and rent, it appears by the inquisition thus taken that Simon, formerly prior of in 56 Henry III., entered the messuage and land, which Richard of Ellen, his villein, had acquired as above, as tenements acquired to the prior by his villein, and that William, sometime prior of the same, the rent aforesaid in fee from the said Richard Cluny three years the publication of the statute of mortmain.