1345-08-14, Havering Atte Bower
To the bailiffs of Norwich. Order to take inquisition concerning those who have brought false money into that town, to take all those found guilty and keep them safely in i prison until further order, informing the king of the names of those so arrested, as the king has learned that divers merchants and others now bring great sums of false money, counterfeit sterlings, to that town, deceiving the people there. Enrolment of grant by Adam, abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, with the assent of the chapter, to the king, of the advowson of Wyrardesbury church with the chapel of Langele Mareis, annexed thereto, which are of their patronage, quit of a yearly pension of 100s. due to them from the same, in exchange for the king's manor of La Berton near Gloucester, his weir of Munstreworth and a moiety of his weir of Dunye and with the profit of receiving rods in his forest of Dene for the repair of the said weir and moiety which the king has granted to them by cbarter. Witnesses: Sir Thomas son of Maurice de Berkel, Sir Maurice son of Maurice de Berkele, Sir Thomas de Bradeston, Sir Thomas de Berkele of Cubberle, Sir Simon Basset, knights, William de Chiltenham, Thomas de la Mare, of Ryndecombe, John de Elkeston, Henry de Cosham. Dated in their chapter at Gloucester on 25 June, 1345, 19 Edward III.
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