1284-09-15, Chester

To the same. Whereas the king has pardoned out of charity the abbot of Lilleshull 29s. of the issues of the mills of the abbey and 26s. 8d. of the abbot's hay in the manors of Lilleshull, Atingham and Preston, which the king ought to have received during the time of the last voidance, the king orders them not to exact anything from the abbot thereof and to permit him to be acquitted thereof. To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. As the court of the priory of Birkeheved is open by reason of the public street that goes through the middle of it, to the nuisance of the prior and convent and the manifest scandal of their religion, as the king learns, the king has granted to them that they may enclose their court with a ditch and hedge or wall, and that they may hold it enclosed to them and their successors, on condition that the street near the priory be diverted into a place that shall be more suitable and more convenient for those passing through that place: the king orders the justice to permit the premises to be done accordingly, and not to molest the prior and convent by reason of the diversion of the street and the enclosure of their court.