1323-06-13, Cowick

To John de Donecastre, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in Wakefeld. As it is found by an inquisition taken before Richard de Musele by the king's order that the priors of Lewes and the convent of the same place were wont to receive from time out of mind a rent of 210. yearly for a tithe of the earl Warenne s rents from his lands in co. York by the hands of his receiver at Wakefeld, by grant from the earl, and that the present prior of Lewes and the convent of the same received the aforesaid rent all the time when it and the aforesaid lands were in the hands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, by the hands of William de Acworth, the . 659 receiver of the said earl Thomas at Wakefeld, until the lands came to king's hands by the earl's forfeiture, and that the present prior and granted to Master Albertinus Rogerii de Pistor[iis].and John de for five years their manors, churches and lands of Halyfax, and Braythewell, in the diocese of York, with all fruits, ferms, tithes, pensions of churches and vicars, etc., and all other pertaining to the prior and convent in that diocese: the king the keeper to pay to Albertinus and John the arrears of the aforerent from the time of the keeper's appointment, and to pay them the rent henceforth until further orders. ' By C.