1334-10-08, Walsingham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. The poor of the king's demesnes, lands and manors of Tassagard, Newcastle Leixlip (Saltu Salmonis) in Ireland, and the tenants of these manors, besought the king by their petition before him and his council, to them the arrears of their ferms and rents, as their lands and posseshave long been destroyed by reason of the wars and disturbances by invasions of the Scots and Irish in those parts, their houses burned and goods plundered, and they are reduced to such want and misery that can in no way pay the said arrears; and yet they are so oppressed by of the said arrears, both by arrest of their bodies and by various that many of them have become vagrants, begging their food ; king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls and of the exchequer touching the premises, taking an inquisition necessary, and to inform the king thereupon without delay, superseding exaction made upon the said fermors and tenants, by summons of the for the said arrears, until Michaelmas next. By pet. of C.