1303-06-06, Linlithgow

To Walter de Gloucestriia , escheator beyond Trent. Order not to jntermeddle further with a messuage in Northampton that the friars of the order of Penitence were wont to inhabit, as the escheator certified the king, in response to his order, that the messuage was taken into the king's hands when the brethren left it because Edward, prince of Wales, was given to understand that it was given to the brethren by Queen Eleanor, his mother, and that she acquired it at her own cost _ for the use of the brethren, and it appears to the king by the certification that Queen Eleanor did not acquire the messuage as aforesaid, and that it or any part of it was not wont to do any service to the king, but that one Nicholas de Cogeho, knight, granted the messuage to the brethren for the health of his soul and of the soul of his ancestors, to have so long as they should dwell therein, with condition that if they left the messuage, it should revert to him or to Maud, his wife, or to their heirs. By C.