1295-10-04, Canterbury

To the sheriff of Kent. Order to restore to William de Homersham, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged with theft before the justices last in eyre in that county, as he purged his innocence before the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, late guardian of the spirituality of the archbishopric of Canterbury, the see being then void, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and the king learns by inquisition that he caused to be taken by the sheriff and the coroners of that county that William is of good fame and honest conversation, and was never a public or notorious evil-doer.