1336-12-10, Bothwell

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. the king lately appointed Eudo de Stoke and John de Maners to 1,000 quarters of wheat, 20 lasts of herrings, and 6,000 stokefissh screyfissh and other hard fish in fitting places in cos. Lincoln and for the king's money, to be paid by the hands of the sheriffs of counties, and to cause the said wheat and fish to be delivered to these by indenture, to be taken thence to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and according to the advice of Eudo and John, to be to the receivers of the king's victuals there for the maintenance of king and the lieges in his service in the north; and afterwards, by letters patent, the king appointed Eudo and John to purvey divers of corn and other victuals in fitting places in the said counties, to be for by the king's money, and to cause that corn to be ground and the thereof and the other victuals to be delivered to the sheriffs by to be taken to the same towns by the advice of Eudo and John be delivered to the same receivers, and afterwards the king ordered the and barons to audit the accounts of Eudo and John for their upon such purveyance and for the victuals and other things by them, and for the liveries, costs and expenses in making the and further to do what pertains to the rendering of such and now John has informed the king that although he accounted the exchequer upon the premises and 185 , 12s. 03d. are owing to him the surplus of that account, he has not yet obtained that sum and has the king to cause him to have payment thereof; the king thereorders the treasurer, barons, and chamberlains to view the said account, if they find that 1852. 12s. 03d. are owing to John as aforesaid, then to that money to him, or to cause him to have a competent assignment By C. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the which they made for the debts of the prior and brethren of the of St. John of Jerusalem in England, under the name of the same, be superseded, and not to molest or aggrieve the brotherhood in any by reason of those debts, as all the lands which belonged to the master brethren of the Temple came as escheats into the hands of the late and of other lords, of whom those lands were held, by reason of the and annulling of that order, and the late king assigned those lands, the assent of parliament, to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of John of Jerusalem in England and ordered them to be delivered to and although the king caused all the said lands, demesnes, fees, advowsons and liberties to be seised into his hands by the sheriffs the counties, and to be delivered afterwards to the prior and brethren of Hospital according to the form of the said agreement, yet the treasurer barons cause certain sums of money, in which the master and brethren the Temple were bound to the king's progenitors before the annulling of order, to be exacted of the prior and brethren and to be distrained in lands which belonged to the Templars, which they hold by reason of aforesaid agreement, and they unjustly cause them to be much aggrieved that reason. By C.