1317-01-04, Clipston

To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the abbey of Eynesham or with anything pertaining thereto, as J. bishop of Lincoln has given the king to understand that the escheator has taken into the king's hands the temporalities of the abbey on account of the death of Adam the late abbot, as if the abbey were of the king's advowson, the late king having, on June 1, in the 35th year of his reign, ordered Walter de Gloucestre, then escheator beyond Trent, not to intermeddle further with the abbey or anything pertaining to it by reason of the death of the late abbot, because it was found by the record and process of a suit before Solomon de Roff? and his fellows, his justices in eyre in the county of Oxford, by writ of right between him and Oliver, late bishop of Lincoln, concerning the advowson of the abbey, that the bishop had greater right therein than the king. . 385