1316-06-16, John Westminster

de Barby acknowledges that he owes to William de Ayremynn, 6 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and in the city of London. Cockerel is sent to the abbot and convent of Glastonbury to the necessaries of life in the place of William de Ponton, deceased. By p.s. de Karliolo is sent to the prior and convent of Monkkirkeby to the necessaries of life in place of Robert de Farnham, deceased. 4 By p.s. that the king at Westminster, on 17 June, granted, at the of the earl of Pembroke, to John de Crosseby, clerk of the the first void church of the king's gift under the taxation of 201, hereupon ordered Sir John de Sandale, the chancellor, to present the clerk to such church when a voidance occurs. that whereas amongst other manors and lands lately by the king to Matilda, late the wife otf Robert de Thony, tenant there was assigned the rent that Geoffrey de Thony used to render Robert for Robert's lands in Sele and Suthtauston, co. Devon, which held for life by grant from Robert, with provision that if Matilda Geoffrey, then Alice, countess of Warwick and her heirs, should be bound to pay the said rent to Matilda for her lifetime, as more fully contained in the aforesaid assignment; and afterwards, as Geoffrey had died, the king ordered the countess to pay the said rent to Matilda, but the countess has hitherto not done so; whereupon the king ordered Master , John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent, to warn the countess to be before the king in chancery on the morrow of Holy Trinity last to shew cause why she should not pay the rent to Matilda; and the countess appeared on that day by John de Barowe, her attorney, and asserted that she held the lands in question, and granted that Matilda should receive the said rent for life. And Matilda's attorney was told to distrain for any arrears of the said rent from Geoffrey's death, if he thought fit.