1323-05-28, Bishopthorpe

To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to further with 5 acres of meadow in Haughele called Le Fisshand to restore the issues thereof to the abbot of Hayles, as the learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Edmund, late earl of enfeoffed the abbot's predecessor thereof in frankalmoin long the publication of the statute of mortmain, and that the abbot and of that place have bitherto continued their seisin thereof from the of the feoffment, and that the earl at the time of the feoffment held the of the earl marshal, the escheator having taken the meadow into king's hands under the pretence that the abbot had acquired it after the of the said statute.