1365-05-08, Westminster

To the justices of the Bench. Order, upon the petition of the abbot of Lyre, to proceed to render judgment in a plea between him and the dean of Wy[n]burne, doing justice between the parties ; as the abbot has shewn that his predecessor impleaded Master Richard de Clare then dean of Wynburne before the said justices to render him 288 marks, arrears of a yearly rent of 8 marks to him due, in which plea the dean alleged that he held the deanery for life of the king's advowson by collation of the late king, and found the deanery discharged of the said rent, wherefore without the king he ought not to make answer, that thereby at the said late abbot's suit command was given to the then justices to proceed in the plea his allegation notwithstanding, that the process was continued so that after by inquisition of the country and by judgment of the court the said abbot recovered the rent and arrears against the said Richard, that the now abbot is impleading the now dean before the justices for arrears of the same rent, and that they have deferred to proceed in the plea for that the now dean in his pleading has alleged that he holds the deanery of the king's collation, and without the king ought not to make answer. By K. and C.