1304-11-25, Burstwick

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Byron, late sheriff of co. York, to be acquitted of 6211. 2s. 5d. exacted from him for the goods that belonged to Nicholas de Meignil, clerk, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the justices in eyre in co. York with the death of William de Moubray and Mand, his wife, Richard de Moubray, William's son, and Hilda, Richard's sister, and with burning the houses of William and the houses of the vicar of Rudeby and with harbouring William Cokerel and Reginald le Hunte, the king's felons, as the king, because Nicholas purged his innocence before J. late archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, ordered the sheriff to restore the aforesaid goods to Nicholas.