VIII. 4 May 1282

The King to his beloved and faithful Stephen de Pencester, Constable of his Castle of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports — Greeting. As we have learnt from the complaint of our Barons of Faversham that [Oswald] Abbot of the same place, ought, by a certain composition, formerly made between himself and those Barons, to find one man, at his own cost, to guard our prison there, together with a certain other man to be found for this purpose by the said Barons : and although the same Abbot should have found, according to the said composition, the aforesaid man to guard the aforesaid prison, he nevertheless now wrongfully refuses to do this. We, considering that for lack of guard of this kind danger will be likely to accrue in the future, command you [that you make inquisition into the plaint] of the Barons aforesaid ; if you find it to be thus you will cause the aforesaid Abbot to find the man aforesaid for the custody of that prison as he ought, and was wont, to do in times past, by the aforesaid agreement.

Witness myself, at Gloucester, the fourth day of May in the tenth year of our reign.