1343-04-16, Havering Atte Bower

Order to the king's hand from the priory of Mendham and the possessions thereto, without delay, and further to do what has hitherto been by reason of a voidance, so that a porter be placed at the gates of priory by reason of the present voidance for the preservation of the king's and that of the heir, which porter he shall amove after he has amoved king's hand from the priory and its possessions, as the king has learned taken by William Trussel, sometimo escheator this side Trent, Roger de Huntyngfeld, tenant in chief, whose lands were taken into the hands by reason of the minority of his heir, and his ancestors, were of the said priory, which is a cell of the priory of St. Mary, Castleacre, that in the time of a voidance of the priory of Mendham, they used to a porter to keep the gates of the priory during the voidance, taking except his victuals, and that they might send to hold the court of the during a voidance, taking nothing away, and that the prior of Casteland his predecessors used to present a monk of the Cluniac order to the of Mendham, so that he was English, in the voidances thereof, to and his ancestors, who used immediately to receive him as prior, and they had no other profits from the priory, and the king has taken the of brother Henry de Berlegh, monk of the priory of Castleacre, on the prior of Castleacre has conferred the priory of Mendham, now Ralph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who his place in the forest of Shirewode.