1275-05-20, Westminster

To Joseph de Chancy, the ireasnrer, and to the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. The king remembers how, at the instance of his mother Queen Eleanor, he pardoned the abbot and convent of St. Mary, Stratford, all pains and usuries of all debts in which they were bound to Master Elias son of Moses, a Jéw of London, and to Floria his wife, and other Jews of the realm whatsoever, both their own debts and the debts that Master Elias and Floria exact from them for certain lands in Ginges Muntenye that they bought from William Bocquite, who was indebted in 60/. by his charter to Floria before Elias married her: as the greater part . 173 goods of the abbot and convent are insufficient for payment of the debts together witi the usuries and pains, as the king understands for the king, compassionating their estate and wishing to show them for the health of his soul and of the souls of his ancestors and heirs, them all pains and usuries of all the debts aforesaid, and of debts in which they are bound to any Jews of the realm by reason tenements in their hands, provided that they satisfy the Jews for the of the loans (pro principalibus mutuis). The king therefore the treasurer and justices to cause inquisition to be made as to how money the abbot and convent received from the aforesaid Master and Floria or from other Jews, and when they have thus ascertained of the principal debt, they are to cause the Jews to be satisfied principal only at terms to be provided by the treasurer and justices, to cause the abbot and convent to be acquitted of the said usuries and and to cause the charters whereby they are bound for the said debts withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers of the Jews, and to them to be delivered to the abbot and convent, provided however if the abbot and convent ean show by stars or by cther instruments they have paid anything thereof to the Jews, the treasurer and justices cause what they have thus paid to be allowed to them in the loans, to cause this to be so done and enrolled. Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Robert kinsman and heir of Thomas de Greleye, to have seisin of the of Mamecestre, Barton and Kynerdelegh, which were in the custody the king's brother, by the late king's commission, as the king ordered the escheator to cause Robert to have seisin of Thomas's and he afterwards ordered him to supersede the delivery of the aforesaid by reason of the right that Peter de Greleye claimed to in them before the king, and the king, after treating thereof with his taking into consideration that Edmund had the custody of the during the minority of the heir by the late king's commission, that Edmund granted the custody of them to Walter de Percy, who the custody to the aforesaid Peter until the heirs (sic) came of and that Peter had the custody of the manors by this commission and other reason, has rendered seisin of the manors to Robert, saving of Peter if he wish to prosecute it (cwm inde loqut voluerit).