1324-09-26, Porchester

To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and acres of land in Surflete, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king, at petition of the prior of Spaldyng , suggesting that John son of Godfrey Felde of Surflete in the time of Henry III. granted the messuage and to John, prior of Spaldyng , in frankalmoin, and that John son of and his ancestors held the messuage and land, from time out of until the making of the grant to the prior, of John de Braytoft, then of the manor of Risgate, and of his ancestors, and not of the king, and Henry confirmed the grant by his charter in the 54th year of his reign, that the escheator had taken the messuage and land into the king's because it was found by an inquisition of office taken before him that tenements are held of the king in chief, and that the said prior John acquired them without licence from the king, ordered the escheator to inquisition concerning the acquisition of the same, and it is found by said inquisition that John son of Godfrey granted the messuage and land the said prior John in the time of Henry III., to hold to him and his by the service of 10s. yearly, and that John son of Godfrey and ancestors held the messuage and land, from time out of mind until the of the grant to the prior, of John de Braytoft, then lord of the of Risgate, and of his ancestors, and not of the king's progenitors, it appears by the charter of confirmation of Henry ILI. exhibited in that he confirmed the said grant in the aforesaid year of his reign.