1349-09-20, Mortlake

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon the abbot and convent of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, for 421. Os. 54d. by reason of the voidance if it is found, on inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, that 600 marks have been paid for the voidance, and that they ought not to pay more, as the late king granted to Ralph, the late abbot, and the convent there that the prior and convent should have the custody of the abbey in any voidance with all the things pertaining thereto ; and that no escheator or other minister of the king should intermeddle therewith, the prior and convent rendering 600 marks for the voidance, and now the abbot and convent have shown the king that although the 600 marks have been paid for the last voidance yet the treasurer and barons exact 421. Os. 54. of them, asserting that that sum in arrear for the voidance, whereupon the abbot and convent have the king to provide a remedy.