1275-11-25, Tower

To the taxors of the fifteenth in co. Kent. Whereas certain men of religion of the realm have shown the king certain ways whereby they will help him more of their liberal will than by the taxation of their goods made or to be made by the said taxors: the king orders the taxors that, when they have made taxation and appraisement of the goods of the prior and convent of Rochester in that county, so that the taxors may certify the king thereof on their coming to him, they shall not proceed to make distraints on the prior and convent by reason of the said fifteenth until otherwise ordered. 27. Katherine, late the wife of John Paynel, tenant in chief, of co. Dorset, Geoffrey de Percy of co. Kent, and Robert de Whytefeld of co. Sussex have mainperned before the king to restore John Paynel, son and heir of the said John, to Maurice de Credonio, to whom the king granted the custody until John comes of age, at Maurice s order.