1300-09-20, Rose Castle

To the bailiffs of Colchester. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Alexander le Ksquiler held in that town of the inheritance of Margery daughter of Joan le (sic) Trailly, as the king lately ordered them to certify him of the reason for taking them into his hands, and they have signified that Alexander held at his death a messuage, two shops, 22 acres of land, 8 acres of pasture, and 3s. 4d. of yearly rent in the town and suburbs of Colchester by the courtesy of England of Margery's inheritance, and that they had taken the premises into the king's hands for divers debts due to him from Alexander for the time when he was in the king's service by his writ of privy seal. By K. on the information of R. de Cotingham. ,