1324-06-26, Tonbridge

To John de Frylond, keeper of certain rebels lands in co. Gloucester, Order to cause to be paid to Matilda, late the wife of Adam Tilly, the arrears of a quarter of beans and 34 yards of cloth, price 40d., of such cloth as Thomas de Berkeleye, late lord of Berkeleye, used to give to poor men, yearly from the time when the manor of Alkynton was taken into the king's hands, and to cause the same to be paid to her yearly hereafter, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Aston and John de Hampton that the said Thomas granted the above beans and cloth to Matilda, to be received yearly from his manor of Alkynton during her life, and that she released to him, in consideration of this grant, her right of dower in a third of a messuage and of a virgate of land within the said manor, and that the said third is worth yearly 13s. 4d., and is now in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Maurice, son and heir of the said Thomas, and that Matilda was seised of the beans and cloth from the time of the grant until the manor was taken into the king's hands without any change of her estate, and that she did not release or demise them to anyone, and that the manor is held in care by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and is worth 64/. 19s. 93d. yearly.