XIII. 5 August 1285

Edward, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to his beloved servant in Christ, the Abbot of Faversham — Greeting. Forasmuch as we have learnt from the complaint of our Barons of Favers ham that you and your bailiffs of Faversham grievously distrain our Barons for the performance to you of undue and unaccustomed services, and that you, contrary to a certain composition formerly entered into between you and them, frequently vex and unjustly oppress them to the grievous and weighty hurt of these Barons : We, unwilling that you should injure these Barons on this behalf, com mand you, as we have often commanded, firmly enjoining you, that you entirely desist henceforth from levying exactions and undue distraints of this kind on the afore said Barons, and cause your bailiffs to desist ; observing the said agreement according to the tenor thereof, as shall be just, according to the tenor of our other commands which on that behalf you have received : and that you cease the distraint made upon them on the aforesaid plea without delay, so that a second complaint on that account shall not again reach us ; or that you yourselves be before us wherever we may then be in England within 15 days from the feast of Saint Michael to answer to the said Barons for the unjust exactions and distraints aforesaid, and (to answer) to us wherefore you have delayed carrying out our frequent mandates directed to you on that behalf: And you have there this writ.

Witness myself, at Wolvemere, the fifth day of August in the thirteenth year of our reign.