1367-07-17, Westminster

To Richard de Widevylle escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order to remove the king's hand and not to meddle further with 3 acres of land and 2s. of rent of John Colyns in Byfeld, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king lately ordered the escheator to certify in chancery under his seal the cause wherefore the premises were by him taken into the king's hand, and by virtue of that command he certified that he so took the same for that John Mareschall without the king's licence gave them to the fabric of the church of Byfeld, and towards finding two candles burning continually in the said church as well on feast days as on week days, contrary to the statute of mortmain ; and the king considers that cause undue and insufficient.