1296-01-26, Castleacre

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to restore the priory of Castelacre to the prior and convent, if it have been taken into the king's hands by pretext of his order to take into his hands all the houses and manors of alien religious of the power of the king of France and adherents of his, or who are bound to them by obedience, affinity, or in any other manner, as the king learns from the testimony of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, and of other trustworthy men that the prior and convent are Englishmen and not aliens of the power of the king of France or of his adherents, and that they do not pay any tax (censwm) or pension to any one of his power or of his adherents, and that they are not bound to any one of his power by ebedience, affinity or in any other manner, except that the abbot of Cluny was wont to visit in the priory when he came to England, and that the prior and convent received their profession from the abbot in such visitations.