1336-12-04, Bothwell

To John de Verdon, constable of Rokyngham castle and keeper of the forest there. Order to cause Master Walter de Burley, the king's clerk, to be released from prison in that castle, by a mainprise, as Walter bas besought the king to provide for his release, as he caused two oaks in that forest, which Queen Philippa granted to him of her gift by the livery of the constable's ministers of the said forest, to be cut down and carried away, and certain of his rivals scheming to aggrieve him, procured his indictment for this, upon which pretext he is imprisoned in the said castle, and he has found before the king in chancery, Roger Daungervill, of co. Leicester, and Thomas de Benton, of co. Wilts, mainpernors, who have undertaken to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest in co. Leicester when they come to those parts, or before the king or his justices at his order, to answer the king and the others interested in this respect, By C.