1340-05-08, Westminster

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon Edmund de la Beche, clerk, for 200 marks, for which he made a recognisance in the late king's chancery, to the said king, to save his life, because he is of the quarrel of Thomas earl of Lancaster, and the late king sent the tenor of the recognisance to the exchequer, so that the 200 marks are now levied of Edmund for the king's use, and the king has caused the recognisance to be cancelled because it was agreed in parliament, at Westminster in the first year of the reign, that all fines, obligations, redemptions and recognisances made by those who were of the said quarrel, to save their lives or lands, by reason of the prosecution of Hugh le Despenser the elder and Hugh le Despenser the younger, should be annulled, because the quarrel was adjudged good and just and the judgments rendered against it were annulled as altogether erroneous.