1336-02-16, Walsingham
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of between the waters of Donne and Syvera, to be elected, in place John de Butterwyk, who is too weak and insufficiently qualified; as the granted by charter to the abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, that and their successors should keep the forest of Spaunton, by their own foresters and other ministers, and should do, exercise and pursue and all other things pertaining to the custody of the forest, in same, and as often as a verderer of that forest should die or chance to be qualified, the abbot should have writs in chancery, directed to sheriff of York, to elect another verderer in place of the one deceased or
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