1302-02-02, Edinburgh

the same. Although the prior and convent of Holy Cross, Waltham, to have by the charters of the king's progenitors, which he has the custody of their house and of all its goods upon each voidfor which reason the king ordered the escheator not to intermeddle way with the house or any of its goods by reason of the death of the late abbot, and to restore anything that he might have it was, and is, the king's intention that the ring, cup, palfrey of hounds (mota canum) that belonged to the said abbot at his shall be exacted from the prior and convent for the king's use, if ought to pertain to him by reason of the abbot's death, but so that the escheator shall have exacted the ring, cup, palfrey and kennel he shall place the exaction in respite until the king's next in order that there may then be done what the king shall to be ordained by his council : the king therefore orders the escheator such exaction and then to respite it as above. By p.s. [2844.] Records, ii, p. 930.]