Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1318 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1318', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 51-52. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp51-52 [accessed 18 April 2024]

December 1318



	Membrane 16—Schedule.
Dec. 28. Beverley.	To Master Richard de Clare, escheator beyond Trent. Order to proceed to the priory of Priterwell, and to amove thence the malefactors who have entered the same in the company of William le Avernaz, and to take the priory into the king's hands, and to cause it to be guarded safely, and to administer victuals and other necessaries from the goods thereof to the monks, and to attach by the sheriff of Essex any persons resisting the execution of this order, taking with him sufficient posse of the country, as the king learns that William has entered the priory with force and arms, and is wasting the goods thereof, which is of the alms of the king's progenitors, in the king's contempt, especially as no person ought to enter or administer such temporalities of the king's patronage without his special order; the king having previously ordered him to deliver the priory to brother James de Cusancia, prior of Priterwell, because he learned from the complaint of the said James that the aforesaid William, monk of the order of Cluny, who asserted that he had been instituted prior of Priterwell and that he had been despoiled of the possession thereof at the procuration of James, had entered the priory by force and arms, and that he held the same by armed force, wasting the goods and possessions, expelling the monks from the priory, breaking open the chests in the priory, and usurping to himself the common seal and muniments of the priory, sealing divers obligations and other letters with the said seal at his will; at which time the king ordered the escheator to summon James and William to appear in chancery on the morrow of the Assumption last; at which day William appeared before the king at Notyngham, and renounced and resigned all right in the priory into the hands of the prior of Lewes his superior, whereupon the king ordered the escheator to deliver the priory to the said James: notwithstanding which the king understands that William has again entered the priory by force and arms. By K.