1344-02-22, Kennington

To the sheriff of Kent. Order not to intermeddle further with the priory of Horton in that county, which is a cell of the priory of Lewes, as is said, restoring the issues to the prior, as lately at the prior's suit showing that he is an Englishman and has never made any apportum or tax to any religious house beyond the sea, and that the priory and its possessions were never taken into the king's hands with the possessions of alien men of religion, yet the priory has been taken into the king's hands as an alien priory and the prior has besought the king to order his hand to be amoved therefrom, wherefore the king ordered the sheriff to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that William de Warenna, son of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, the present prior, was born in England in Conesburgh castle, co. York, and neither-he nor his predecessors have made any apportum, tax or service (intendenciam) to any religious house beyond the sea.