1301-06-24, Tynemouth

Order to cause lands mentioned below to be restored to the dean and chapter of St. Hereford, as the king learns by an inquisition that he caused be taken by the escheator that the dean and chapter acquired two in Hereford, to wit one from Agnes la Glovere and the other Absolom (de Aspilone) le Clerk, seventeen years before the of the statute of mortmain, and 18s. 4d. of yearly rent the same town from Hugh le Clerk, citizen of Hereford, ten years the publication of the statute, and 12s, of yearly rent in the same from John de Gloucfestria] eight years before the publication of the and a messuage and eighteen acres of land in the canons moor la more canonicorum) from John de (sic) Breton thirty years before the of the statute, and 60 acres of land in Baysham and Selak Aytrop de la More and Adam de la Felde fifty years before the of the statute, and 30 acres of land in Pencoit from David and William Colling forty years before the publication of the and 12d. yearly of rent in Hereford from Reginald Moniword years before the publication of the statute, to them and their in free, pure and perpetual alms, which land, etc. the escheator taken into the king's hands, asserting that the dean and chapter had Membrane T acquired them after the publication of the statute without the king's licence, and order to restore everything received thence since they were taken into the king's hands.