1302-04-16, Wallingford

To Walter de Gloucestr ia], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the priory of Christ Church, Twynham, as Isabel de Fortibus, late countess of Albemarle and Devon and lady of the Isle [of Wight], granted by her charter, which the king confirmed, to God and the said church and the canons there serving God that whenever the church should be void by the death or cession of the prior, the canons should peacefully take and possess by themselves or their ministers all the issues and profits of all the men, lands, possessions and other things pertaining to the church, both within and without the priory, in their manors and places, and that they might employ them for the use and advantage of the canons and church as should seem best to them in every time of voidance, without any challenge, impediment or contradiction of her or her heirs or assigns, so that neither she or her heirs or assigns or anyone in her or their name might take or appropriate to themselves anything during voidance from the men, lands or possessions of the church, except that she and her heirs and assigns should have in time of voidance in the priory a bailiff or minister assisting the canons in the custody of the priory, who should safely keep together with the canons the goods and possessions of the church for the use and benefit of the canons and church; and the king has taken the fealty of Brother William Quyntin, a canon thereof, who has been elected prior and whose election J. bishop of Winchester, the diocesan, has confirmed, as appears to the king by the bishop's letters patent directed to the king, and to whose election the king had previously given his assent. By p.s. [2964.]