1334-04-12, Rockingham

To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle with the abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, now void by the death of Ralph, the late abbot, or with anything belonging thereto, restoring the issues thereof without delay to the prior and convent, but to permit the prior and convent to have full administration of all the things belonging to that abbey and not to molest them in any way, saving to the king the knight's fees and advowsons of the abbey during the present voidance, as the late king, out of the especial devotion which he bore to St. Augustine and that the monks of that abbey should worship God more fervently, granted to Ralph, the then abbot, and to the convent there, that at the next voidance of that abbey the prior and convent should have the custody thereof during that voidance and should receive all that the king usually received by reason of a voidance, so that no escheator or other minister of the king should enter upon that abbey or intermeddle with the things belonging thereto, the prior and convent rendering to the king 600 marks for that voidance, saving the knight's fees and advowsons aforesaid, To John de Cobeham and John de Frenyngham, keepers of the temporalities of that abbey. Order not to intermeddle with that abbey, void by the death of the said Ralph, or with the things belonging thereto.