1341-01-10, Melrose

the sheriff of Southampton. Order to amove the king's hand without from the lands, goods and chattels of John de Scures, and not to further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to John and him if he is taken, as the king lately ordered John upon pain of to be in chancery on Monday after St. Andrew last to do what be enjoined upon him by the chancellor there, and because he did the king ordered the sheriff to take him and have him before the king in chancery on the morrow of Epiphany last to answer for his disobedience and to seize his lands, goods and chattels and answer therefor to the king at the exchequer, and the sheriff has returned that he went to attach John and found him so feeble and broken by age that he could in no wise travail without danger of death, and he could not have John before the king on the said day, and he caused all John's lands, goods and chattels to be seized, in accordance with the order, and that John further told him that he had received no writ directing him to be before the king in chancery, and the king has learned from trustworthy testimony that John is so old and broken by age that he cannot travail. By C.