Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1346

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1905.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1346', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349, (London, 1905) pp. 178-179. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol8/pp178-179 [accessed 19 April 2024]

November 1346



Nov. 28. The Tower.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to supersed the execution of the king's writ directing him to attach James, abbot of Clyve, fermor of the abbot of Bec Herlewin, prebendary of Clyve in the church of St. Andrew, Wells, and to have him before the council on a certain day to answer for his farm for a year, and for divers contempts and trespasses, as the treasurer and barons of the exchequer have certified the king in chancery that a yearly pension of 44 marks is due to the priory of Okebourn, which is a cell of the abbey of Bec Herlewin, by the abbot of Clyve for Clyve church, and that in the 18th year of the late king's reign, when the lands of the alien religious were taken into his hand, answer was made to the prior for that pension by reason of the lands of the abbot of Bec in England committed to the prior, wherefore the king has now ordered the abbot of Clyve to be answerable to that prior for the said pension or ferm.