1283-11-25, Worcester

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Walter son of Jordan son of Oliver to be acquitted of 207. exacted from him for the time when his father was the late king's sheriff of Somerset, as it appears to the king by the records of the exchequer that Jordan, when he was sheriff, received 20/. from the abbot of Glastonbury for an amercement imposed upon the abbot by Robert de Lexinton and his fellows, justices then in eyre in that county, fora trespass, and that Jordan paid this sum to the bishop of Bath and Wells of that time, in accordance with his liberties of having amercements of his men and tenants, receipt whereof the executors of the bishop's will acknowledged in the exchequer, and it appears to the king that the bishop had and ought to have by the charters of the king's predecessors fines and amercements of his men and tenants.