1326-02-04, Walsingham

To the sheriff of Kent. The men and tepants of the abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury of his manors of Menstre in the Isle of. Thanet, Chistelet, S[t]urreye, Lutelburn, Northburn, Lenham, and Plumsted have shewn by their petition before the king and his council that whereas the porghesalder and four men of each tithing (b0rgha) of those manors brought with them, at the time when they came to the sheriff's tourns in that county to present those things that pertain to the view of frankpledge, a certain rent called the sheriff's tourn, and that although it was considered, in a plea lately moved in the king's court before the king, between the abbot and John Malemeyns of Hoo, then sheriff of that county, by pretext of certain charters made to the abbot by the king and his progenitors, that the abbot and his successors should have for ever the view of frankpledge and what pertains to such view in the aforesaid manors, whereby presentations and other things that pertain to such view in the same manor[s] ought to be made in the abbot's court of the manors aforesaid, and not elsewhere, the sheriff nevertheless distrains the said men and tenants because all the borghesalders (borghesaldri) with four men of each tithing did not come to his tourns after the consideration aforesaid, although they have sent the aforesaid rent to him by a man from the time of the consideration until now, and they have prayed the king for a remedy ; as it appears by the record and process of the said plea, and by a certificate made into chancery by the sheriff, which the king afterwards caused to come before him and his council, that the abbot ought to have the view aforesaid and those things that pertain to the view in the said manors, the king orders the sheriff to supersede entirely his distresses of the men and tenants to come to his tourns by the borghesalders and four men of each tourn to bring the aforesaid rent, and to release to them the distresses made in this behalf ; provided that the rent be paid to the king in full at the tourns by one man. By pet. of C. Richard son of Andrew le Kyng of Waterbeche, who is imprisoned in castle for the death of John son of Andrew le Kyng, has letters to the sheriff of Cambridge to bail him until the first assize. To John de Blumvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Hertford, and Essex. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of William de Redham, tenant by knight service of the heir of Geoffrey de Say, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's To the sheriff of Norfolk.