1276-01-13, Winchester

To the barons of the exchequer. Robert de Vernun, son and heir of John de Vernun, has shown the king that whereas John was the late king's sheriff of Wilts and received the custody of that county with the hundred of Melkesham, of which hundred 52s. of rent of assize and 40s. of pleas and perquisites were wont to be received yearly, and the late king [committed] the manor and hundred of Melkesham to Amice, countess of Devon, at the beginning of [John's] receipt of the county, and the countess held the manor and hundred for the five years during which John was sheriff, und she received in full the profits and emoluments thereof, the barons exact from Robert 23/. for the arrears of the said 6/. 12s. Od. (ste) for the time aforesaid: the king orders the barons to search the rolls of the exchequer, and to make inquisition if necessary, and if they find it to be as to supersede the demand aforesaid, and to discharge Robert thereof. ' To the taxors and collectors of the fifteenth in co. Surrey. Order to cause to be restored to Henry Trenchard his manor of Perfright, as the king understands that they have taken this manor into his hands because Henry did not come before them to tax and appraise with others the goods of that county, as they had enjoined upon him on the king's behalf. Richard de Refham, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of John de Hadenham, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.