1290-01-28, Canterbury

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 16 November, in his tenth year, committed to Christiana de Mariscis the manors of Wyrardesbur[y] and Langeleye during pleasure for 1101. yearly at the exchequer, and afterwards committed the manors to Christiana, to be held by the same ferm until she should enfeoff the king of certain lands in Ireland by her charter, and she enfeoffed the king thereof and caused him to have seisin before All Saints in the said year, wherefore the king has now granted to her the manors aforesaid for life and for three years after death, paying nothing to the king therefor, in accordance with the agreement made between her and the king: the king orders them not to charge Christiana, upon payment of the aforesaid 110/. at the exchequer in fifteen days from Easter, hereafter with the debts or ferms by reason of the manors aforesaid, but to discharge her thereof, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled; provided that the agreement aforesaid be likewise enrolled before them in the exchequer. To the same. Order to cause Geoffrey de Corton to be acquitted of 20s. due to the exchequer for writs of chancery sued out at divers times, as the king has pardoned him in consideration of his poverty. Ralph de Sireston and William his brother, imprisoned at Notingham for the death of Johnle Taillur of Screveton, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Notingham to bail them. To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent.