1278-01-04, Tower

Order to seise into the king's at once, if he have not already done so, the lands that were of the of W. de Merton, late bishop of Rochester, and that are of the Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and to commit seisin thereof to the earl, to hold until the king shall cause justice to be to those claiming right therein. John Bek. Order not to proceed to judgment in the pleas of debt by certain merchants against Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester Hertford, before the quinzaine of Easter next, and to revoke until then order that he may have given to levy from the earl's lands and chattels of judgment, restoring to the merchants any instruments of theirs may be in his hands, so that the earl may compound with them in the and may receive their instruments from them, as the earl has the king laudably in the present war of Wales, not without immense and expenses. the sheriff of Worcester.