1325-11-02, Cippenham

To Thomas de Culverden, keeper of certain rebels lands in co. Kent. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the keeper and William de Cotes that Thomas Colepeper, on Monday after the Epiphany, in the 14th year of the king's reign, granted by his deed to Thomas Botiller and Alice his wife a yearly rent of 2 quarters of wheat and 2 quarters of oats for their lives, together with the yearly pasture of three beasts of their own beasts pasturing with those of his at La Bayhall, in consideration of 14 acres of land tbat belonged to Alice in Pepynbery, now pertaining to the manor of La Bayhalle, which is in the king's hands by the forfeiture of the said Thomas Colepeper, and that the said 14 acres are held of John de Mereworth by the service of 54d. yearly, and are worth yearly 7s. clear beyond the said services, and that the aforesaid [Thomas Boteler and Alice were seised of the rent and pasture from the time of the making of the said deed until the death of Thomas Boteler, who died on the morrow of Holy Trinity, in the 16th year of the king's reign, after whose death Alice was seised of the rent and pasture until Michaelmas, in the 18th year of the king's reign, and that Thomas Boteler and Alice never remitted or released the rent and pasture to Thomas Colepeper; the king therefore orders the keeper to permit Alice to have the pasture aforesaid, and to pay her the arrears of the rent, and to pay the rent henceforth.