1347-04-16, Reading

To the collectors in co. Southampton of the aid of 40s. for making the eldest son a knight. Order to supersede the demand made upon the of the place of St. Edward, Lettele, for 20s. for his lands in Welewe that county, provided that the abbot and convent shall pay the aid all other lands which they hold by knight's service, as the abbot has the king that although he holds the said landsin Welewe by charter Henry III, confirmed by Edward I, quit of all aids to the king, yet the collectors exact 20s. of him for that aid, pretending that he holds the by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, whereupon he has the king to provide a remedy; and by the certificate of the and barons of the exchequer, sent into chancery, it is found that said lands were granted by Henry ITI to the church of St. Mary of the place of St. Edward, Lettele, founded by him, quit of all aids, and it not found in the exchequer rolls that the abbot and convent were ever with an aid by reason of those lands, but that 20s. were granted an aid to Edward I in the 18th year of his reign, to marry his eldest for the said lands, of which the abbot was discharged by consideration made in the exchequer upon process held thereupon.