1277-07-16, Chester

To the barons of the exchequer. It is shown to the king on behalf of Stephen de Penecestre that whereas Stephen was the late king's sheriff of co. Kent for three years and a quarter, and Roger de Leyburn had throughout that time by the late king's demise the seven hundreds of the Weald (de Waldis), which were of the body of the county and whence 10/. yearly were wont to be rendered to the sheriff for the profit of the county, the barons have caused 32/. 10s. Od. to be levied from Stephen for the arrears of his account as if he had the hundreds aforesaid as well as the county during that time: the king orders them, if they ascertain that it is so, to cause this sum to be allowed to Stephen in other debts that he owes to the king. To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to keep in the king's hands until otherwise ordered the abbot of Fécamp s liberty of Slouhtre, which Geoffrey de Leukenor and Geoffrey Russel, the king's justices, took into the king's hands for certain manifest causes and which they delivered to the sheriff for custody, as the king learns from their letters. Laurence le Broc, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Walter de Pogghelipp, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him. To Roger de Mortuo Mari.