1272-11-15, Westminster

Commission to Ralph de Hengham, on complaint by the abbot of Fecamp whereas he and his predecessors in the time of John son of Alan, lord of Arundel, and of John his son and heir and their predecessors, lords of Arundel, used by his bailiffs to receive amercements of his of Ecclesdeu, co. Sussex, wherein they were amerced for any cause in hundred of Paling, belonging to the honor of Arundel, for which reason king lately commanded Robert Aguillon, keeper of that honor, to desist a distraint he was making upon the said men for such amercements, to permit the abbot to levy them, as he was accustomed to do, the said nevertheless distrained bis men, contrary to the charters of the ancestors, and the king's will that none but the usual customs should levied from the abbot while the honor is in the king's custody to enquire whether the abbot and his predecessors used to have such amercements, or whether the said John and his ancestors bad them as appurtenant the said hundred ; also whether John and his ancestors used to receive yearly from the abbot's men of Ecclesden as appurtenant to that