1324-07-24, Porchester

To the justices of the Bench. Order not to molest John le Chaloner, to the king, on 10 November last, granted protection for two years, as was staying in the king's service in the duchy [of Aquitaine] in the comof Ralph Basset of Drayton, seneschal of Gascony, by reason of a writ deceit sued out at the suit of the prior of Coventry against him under the that he had stayed continuously in England before and after the of the protection, they having ordered him to be attached by his body answer to the king and to the prior at a certain date, as it appears to the that John set out in his service in the said duchy and stayed there for time and has now returned to England on the king's service by order the seneschal, and will shortly return to the duchy. By K.