1344-04-12, Berkhampstead

Order to permit A. bishop of Winchester to hold the manors of Intebergh, co. Worcester, Compton Valence, co. Dorset, and Neweton, co. Southampton, and certain lands in Spene, co. Berks, and not to intermeddle further therewith, as the king committed to Laurence de Hastynges, his yeoman, the custody of all the lands of his inheritance which are in the hands of the king, and are committed to divers other men until Laurence should come of age, except those which Henry de Lancastr [ia], earl of Derby, holds of that inheritance by the king's commission, rendering the extent thereof at the exchequer, and the king ordered the escheator to deliver the said lands to Laurence, and afterwards the king learned from the bishop that the escheator intended to amove the bishop from the said manors and lands, which are of Laurence's inheritance, and which the bishop holds by the king's grant until Laurence shall come of age, in recompence of certain debts in which the king is bound to the bishop, and although the king several times ordered the escheator to permit the bishop to hold the premises or show cause why he should not do this, yet he returned that he could not obey the order in favour of the bishop, because on 4 February last he had delivered all the lands of the said inheritance to Laurence by virtue of the previous order. The king has ordered the bishop to retain the said manors and lands in accordance with the king's grant to him, so that he be not aggrieved by reason of the retention of the same in the king's hands. By C.