1385-12-12, Westminster

Writ of swpersedeas omnino in respect of a made by the sheriff, Thomas Fogge knight and Henry Thorp at arms upon William de Hoo knight and Eleanor his wife, brother of the said William and John son of the said William Eleanor within the manors of Threuley, Chilham and la Mellesshe, colour of a command of the marshal of England addressed to the Thomas and Henry at suit of Wiliam Merton esquire by reason cause pending before the constable and marshal between him William de Hoo, and order to.deliver to the said William de Hoo, John and John any distress so taken; as the abbot and of St. Bertinus in St. Omer, having obtained the king's licence, gave them for life the said manors, which are in the king's hands reason of the war with France, for a set farm yearly to be rendered exchequer during the war; and now the king has learned the said distress is being unlawfully made, although they are tenants of the premises.