1303-09-20, Kinloss

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Master Jordan Moraunt lately arramed an assize of novel disseisin against Guillotus le Sautreur for certain tenements that belonged to John de 3utterleye, to wit a messuage and four shops in the city of London, before the sheriffs of the city, to be pleaded according to the custom of the city, and the king ordered the sheriffs by a writ of the exchequer for certain reasons to supersede the taking of the assize and to warn Jordan to be in his proper person at the exchequer on the morrow of Holy Trinity last before the king's council, there to show what he claims to have or of right ought to have in the said tenements; and after the matter had been discussed before the council in the exchequer, Guillotus, wishing to avoid the damages that he might incur if Jordan should recover the tenements by recognition of the assize aforesaid, rendered the tenements to Jordan before the council, renouncing any right that he might have therein, saving to him 20s. yearly from them, to be received until he should be satisfied for the debts in which John at his death was indebted to the king and which the king had given to Guillotus; the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause nothing to be exacted or levied from the tenements except the said 20s. yearly for the use of Guillotus.