1335-09-22, Edinburgh

To John de Ravenesholm. Order to pay to the prior of St. Swithun's, the arrears of a rent of 26s. 8d. yearly, from the time when the of the lands which belonged to John de Westcote came into the of John de Ravensholm, and to pay that rent henceforth so long as said lands remain in his custody, because the king has learned by inquisition taken by William de Northo, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham, in the presence of Johu Secures, sheriff of Southampton, that John de Westcote, whose lands were taken into the king's hands by reason of the idiotcy of John, son and heir the said John, and which are in the custody of John de Ravenesholm by king's commission under a certain form, held in his demesne as of fee at death, all his lands in Depenhale of the said prior by the service of paying 26s. 8d. yearly to the prior and by the service of making suit at the prior's court of Crundale every three weeks; and that Richard, the late prior of that place, predecessor of the present prior, as well as the present prior, were seised of the said services until those lands were taken into the king's hands for the reason aforesaid.