1340-01-06, Westminster

To John de Trehampton and William de Merston, guardians of the 4 temporalities of the bishopric of Lincoln in cos. York, Lincoln, Nottingham, Northampton, Leicester, Rutland and Huntingdon. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of that bishoprie now yoid by the death of Henry, the late bishop, retaining in the king's hand any lands and rents acquired by Henry in fee, and to restore any issues which they have levied of the temporalities and goods of the bishopric to the dean and chapter of St. Mary's, Lincoln, as the late king granted that the dean and chapter should have the custody of the bishopric and all its temporalities during voidances, as the bishop held them, with the full and free administration thereof, so that all rents and yearly services should remain to them saving to the king the escheats which should fall in during a voidance, which should be delivered to the . Panrr 2. 599 bishop at the termination of the voidance, rendering for each void- 1,000. a year and pro rata for a shorter or longer period, and that no or other minister of theking should intermeddle with that custody a yoidance, except that the escheator should take a simple seisin in manor of the bishopric at the beginning of the voidance in the name royal lordship, and that done he should immediately depart without any fealty or recognisance from any tenant of the bishopric or any thing thence, and if an army should be summoned during a voidance dean and chapter should not be bound to service in that army for their and the demesne fees then in their hands, saving to the king the of lands or rents which the bishop should acquire in fee after that By p.s. [13575. like to the following, to wit: John de Alveton and William Wade, guardians of the temporalities of the bishopric in cos. Oxford, Berks, Bedford, Buckingham and Middlesex. John de Trehampton, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Rutland. John de Bereford, escheator in co. Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex. John de Alveton, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham. William de Catesby, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Lancaster. Robert de Clere, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford.