1301-01-28, Nettleham

To the bailiff of the island of Guernsey (Gerneseya). The king learns from the complaint of Oliver le Moigne, nephew and co-heir of William de Sancto Remigio, and of Thomas de Estfeld, who married Alice, the sister and other heir of William, that although Otto de Grandisono, keeper of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey (Jereseya), at another time, in accordance with the ordinance of the king's council in his last parliament at London, ordered the bailiff to restore to the aforesaid Oliver, Thomas and Alice the lands that belonged to William and whereof he was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, which had been taken into the king's hands by his justices in the islands by reason of the abjuration that William made from the islands, which abjuration the king pardoned him, on condition that they should be bound to answer to the king and to others as should be just, the bailiff nevertheless, boldly exceeding the order, has extorted securities for rendering the fruits of the said lands to him when required before he restored the lands, at which the king wonders : he therefore orders the bailiff, if it be so, to cause what he has presumed to extort from the said heirs in this behalf contrary to the said ordinance to be restored to them, and to cause it to be reduced to its due condition without delay, so that renewed complaint may not come to the king through his default.