1344-10-16, Kennington

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon the abbot and convent of Rameseye for their ferm of 50s. yearly which they were wont to render to the king for the residue of the fairs of St. Ives, which were assigned to Edmund, earl of Kent, and escheated to the king by his forfeiture, from 4 May in the 4th year of the reign, on which day the king committed that custody to Edward de Bohoun, now deceased, to hold for life, and because it was agreed in a parliament subsequently held at Westminster that the earl's heirs should be admitted to his inheritance, and that Margaret late the earl's wife should have her dower of the lands which belonged to the earl, notwithstanding the judgment against him, the king assigned to her the said ferm, among other things to hold in dower, and ordered the abbot and convent and Edward to be attendant upon her for the same, wherefore the king ordered the treasurer and barons to supersede the demand made upon the abbot and convent for that ferm from the said 4 May, and the treasurer and barons returned that they delayed to do this because the abbot and any one on his part did not show before them any letters of acquittance of Edward or of Margaret wife of Edmund earl of Kent, to whom the ferm was assigned, and those to whom such ferms and rents are granted in fee simple, tallaged and for life, have to sue against the detainers of the same at the common law, and they are not obliged to have letters of acquittance in such case and yet they are discharged of such ferms and rents paid, so that the king considers the certificate of the treasurer and barons to be insufficient. By C.