1347-07-20, Reading

Order to permit the provost and brethren, chaplains of the of Cotherstok, to have the tenths of wastes and assarts in the of Rokyngham, aiding them in receiving the same so far as he may late king granted to John Giffard, his clerk, that he and his heirs have common with all his animals and cattle in the king's forest of as the men and tenants residing in that forest have the same, afterwards the king granted that John might assign that common to said provost and chaplains to hold in aid of their maintenance, and at John's suit beseeching the king to grant the said tenths the provost and chaplains, as several assarts have been newly made in forest, whereby the provost and chaplains are prevented from receiving profit which they ought to have by reason of the said grant, and the chantry is founded for the souls of the king, his ancestors and he has granted that the provost and chaplains shall receive the of such wastes and assarts approved in the time of former kings, his time and henceforth in aid of their maintenance. Et erat patens.