1341-06-20, Havering Atte Bower

Writ de tntendendo for the king's serjeant, Reymund Seguyn, his butler, purveying by order of the king and council 500 tuns of wine for the king in such ports of England as shall be most expedient. By K. Intimation to all persons interested that in a cause long depending in the court of the Bench between Hugh de Courtenay, late earl of Devon, and Anthony de Lucy, knight, touching the right of patronage of the church of Brigham in the diocese of York, the right to present to the church was adjudged to the earl, as appears by the record and process therein. As such record and process should be preserved in. the king's archives for a perpetual memorial and therefore cannot be transmitted to remote places, the effect thereof is given in words of truth by these presents to which he has caused his seal to be set. Whereas the guardian and Friars Minors of Exeter in the time of Edward I acquired in mortmain 13 acres of land in the suburb of Exeter, entered upon the same, there built their church and houses for their inhabitation and have ever since held the same, without licence, and on that account they are now impeached by the escheator in the county of Devon; the king, in consideration of this that have held the land so long and daily celebrate divine service for his good estate and for the souls of his ancestors and the faithful departed, has pardoned these trespasses and granted licence for them to retain the land. By p.s Pardon, at the request of queen Philippa, to the abbot and convent of St. George's in Normandy, and the keeper of the house of Edi Weston, co. Roteland, a cell of the said abbey, of the farm of 30/. yearly at which, by the king's appointment, the keeper holds the said house with its goods and possessions for such time as these shall be in his hands on account of the war with France. By p.s.