1358-10-27, Westminster

Order to amove the king's hand from the manor of Bernewell of the abbot of Rameseye, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had taken that manor into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken it because he had learned that Reynold, formerly abbot of Rameseye, who held the manor in chief in frank almoin, alienated it in fee to one Reynold le Moygne, in the time of Henry I, rendering to the abbot 100s. yearly, without the king's licence, and because he found by inquisition of office that William de Godemecestre, late abbot of Rameseye, reacquired the manor to himself and his house in the time of Henry III, without obtaining the king's licence; and because the manor was taken into the king's hand fora like cause by William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, in the 14th year of the reign, and that cause seemed insufficient and unjust when brought before the council in parliament at Westminster and diligently examined, wherefore the king ordered William Trussel to amoye the king's hand from the manor and to restore the issues thereof to the abbot, and now, the certificate of the escheator having been examined before the king and his council, it seems to the council that the cause for taking the manor is unjust and insufficient and should be considered null,