1346-01-08, Henry Eltham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas on 9 Decem in the second year of the reign, for 300 marks which the prior and conyent of Abyndon paid in the wardrobe, the king granted to them the custody their abbey, then void, and of the temporalities thereof, to hold during voidance, and the said 800 marks are allowed to the prior and conyent the exchequer; and now the rolls of accounts of Richard de Bury, keeper of the wardrobe, and of other keepers since there, being inspecte it is not found that those keepers charged themselves with more than 100 for that custody, or that answer has hitherto been made to the king f 50 marks, which by order io the chancellor under the privy seal, the or and convent ought to have paid beyond tke 300 marks for that custody, whereby it appears that the remaining 200 marks are still due to the ki he therefore orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls memoranda touching the accounts of the said keepers, and if they find i then to notify the present abbot to be before them on a certain day to s cause why he ought not to answer for the 200/., and further to do receive what the king's court shall determine. By the keeper and Enrolment of tripartite indenture whereof one part remains with the chancellor and treasurer, the second with Sir John Darcy, le piere, constable of the Tower of London, and the third with Sir Thomas Rokeby, sheriff of York, testifying that Sir Thomas on 2 Janua 20 Edward IT, has delivered Sir David de Bruys, who styles himself k of Scotland, whom he received by indenture from Sir Ralph de Nevill York, to take to London and deliver to those deputed by the king, to tl said Sir John, by virtue of the king's writ, to be kept safely in the To and John was ordered by a like writ to receive David and keep him in Tower in the king's name. Dated at the Tower on the day afoi French. [Federa. 28.