1325-12-28, Bury St. Edmunds
To Margaret, lady de Mortimer of Wygemor. Order to go, immediately sight hereof, to the abbey ot Elnestowe near Bedeford, and to dwell at her own cost until further orders, as the king understands that suspicious assemblies or gatherings of men are made daily by and by her men in the parts wherein she is staying. The king has the abbess to cause suitable houses to be assigned within the abbey Margaret's residence. He wills that Margaret shall not leave the abbey she shall have arrived there, and shall not make assemblies or gatherof men without the king's special permission, and he orders her to herseJf so that he shall not have cause to punish her, certifying him her letters and by the bearer hereof of what she will do in this matter, that he may further ordain herein what shall seem expedient to him.
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