1275-07-10, Kempton
Order to cause master and brethren of the king's hospital of God's House, Dover, to seisin of a plot of land in Dover adjoining their house, as the king by inquisition taken by the escheator that the plot, which adjoins said house, in which the poor and infirm are admitted, which pilot the and brethren have besought the king to grant to them in order to a column for the widening of the said house, is held of the king of no other, and that ihe king receives nothing from it yearly, and was wont to receive anything from it, and that he might grant it to the and brethren for this purpose without any nuisance or damage to and without injury to any one else, and that his street there is wide and would still remain sufficient for going, riding, driving (fugandt) with carts, and carrying with waggons (Aarris), and the king has granted the plot to the master and brethren in order to construct the column, to have to them and their house for this purpose for ever. Baldettus de Fylers, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of William de Normanton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him.
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