1334-03-22, Rockingham

To Isabella, queen of England, the king's mother. Order to pay to the of St. Albans a rent of 20s. yearly from the mill of Little Langel, the queen holds for life by the king's grant, as long as that mill is in hands, as by a fine levied in the court of Henry, formerly king of cone. in the 31st year of his reign, between the then abbot of St. Albans William Chendeduyt, concerning that mill, William acknowledged the mill belonged to St. Albans and the abbot of right and rendered it them, and the abbot granted to William to hold the mill of the church of Albans for his hereditary homage and service, for 20s. yearly for every so that if William or his heirs did not render the rent at the terms, the abbot should take the mill into his hands and retain it William or his heirs should satisfy him for the detention of rent and for the trespass, as appears by the part of the fine shown the king in chancery; and by an inquisition taken by John Cantebrigg and William de Leycestr[ia], at the prosecution of Richard, abbot of that place, itis found that Garinus, a former alybot of St. Albans, that mill in frank almoin in the time of the said King Henry, long the publication of the statute of mortmain, and demised it to the said in the said form, in the time of that progenitor, and that the said Gavinus and all succeeding abbots were seised of that service and rent, of a rent of service without interruption (continue), to wit by the hands the said William for his-life, and of Ralph Chenduyt, William's son and for his life, and of Stephen, Ralph's son and heir for his life, until in the time of Edward I. demised the mill to Eleanor, then queen England, from the time of which demise one Geoffrey de Pichford, then of that queen's manor of Langele, and other of her bailiffs afterand subsequently Robert le Parker, bailiff of Edward IT. for that and all his other bailiffs, and the said Robert le Parker, afterwards there of the late king, detained that rent until the 3rd year of the king's reign, in which year the late king fully satisfied Hugh, then of that place, for all the arrears of that rent for his own time and for of Edward I. and Queen Eleauor, and that from that time until now said rent and service have been withdrawn, and that none of the said has hitherto received anything in recompence for the rent and from the king or from any other, and that no one has remitted them any one of the said William, Ralph, Stephen, Eleanor, Edward I. or the king, or to any other at any time. By pet. of parliament and by p.s.