1277-01-24, Worcester

To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king assigned to Alan Plugenet a certain sum of money to be received from the issues of the eyre of Nicholas son of Martin and his fellows, justices appointed in co. Hereford to hear and determine pleas of land given by reason of the disturbance in the realm, and Alan has lately acknowledged before the king that he had received 5 marks of the said issues from Roger de Kyngeston, now deceased, which sum is exacted by summons of the exchequer from the _ abbot of Dore, Walter de Ambrel[eye], chaplain, and other tenants of the lands that belonged to Roger: the king orders the barons to cause the abbot, Walter and the other tenants to be acquitted of the said sum. The like to the barons in favour of the prior of St. Guthlac s, Hereford, for 40s., which Alan acknowledged that he had received from him. To the keeper of the forest of Whichewod. Order to cause R. archbishop of Canterbury to have six oak-trunks (robora) in that forest for his fuel, of the king's gift.