1336-11-11, Stirling

To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to elected in place of Walter de Thorp, who does not stay in that county. To William Trussel, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle with a messuage, 20 acres of land and 10 acres of wood in restoring the issues thereof to the prior of Christ Church, as the king lately ordered the escheator to inform him why had taken the premises into the king's hands; and the escheator that Walter de Hungerford, late escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, and Middlesex, had delivered them to William by indenture at the of his substitution in that office, asserting that they were in the king's by reason of the appropriation of the prior without the king's licence ; afterwards at the suit of the prior, showing that Roger de Berners, who the premises immediately of the prior, had given and assigned them to late bishop of Exeter, to hold for himself and the succeeding bishops that place for ever, without obtaining the prior's licence, and the prior entered those tenements by virtue of the statute of mortmain and for other cause: the king ordered William to take an inquisition upon the by which it is found that Roger gave the premises to the bishop as without obtaining the prior's licence, and the prior had entered tenements, no collusion upon such gift and assignment intervening, that the tenements are held of the prior by the service of rendering 4d. yearly to him and his successors, and of making suit at the prior's of Esthorsele every three weeks.