1325-05-20, Waverley

To Thomas Dayvill, keeper of the castle and honour of Pontefract. Order to pay to the abbot and convent. of Sallay the arrears of 5 marks in arrear to them of the octaves of Whitsuntide, in the 16th year of the king sreign, of a yearly rent of 10 marks for 5 carucates of land and five parts of the whole wood of Halton, and to pay them the said yearly rent for the time that he has been keeper, and to pay them the same yearly henceforth for so long as the aforesaid lands are in his custody, the king having, on 13 September, in the 16th year of his reign, ordered Richard de Musele, then receiver of the issues of the said castle and honour, to pay the abbot and convent the said 5 marks and to pay to them the aforesaid rent yearly, because he learned by inquisition taken by Richard de Aldeburgh and Adam de Hoperton that Stephen, abbot of Sallay, and the convent of the same place a hundred years ago demised at ferm for ever to Alan Martel, then master, and to the brethren of the order of the Temple in England the said 5 carucates and five parts of the wood of Halton, and released to them 5 bovates of land in the same town, rendering therefor to the abbot and convent 10 marks yearly, and that the abbot and convent were seised continuously of that rent from them during the existence of the aforesaid order, and that after the condemnation of the order, they received the rent as well when the lands were in the king's hands as when they were in the hands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, who entered the lands as lord of the fee when the king's hand was amoved, until the death of the said earl, and that the lands then came to the king's hands, and that 5 marks of the rent were in arrear for the term aforesaid.