F. (?) Prior and the Hospital of Roncevaux to Edward II, on behalf of the citizens of Bayonne, greatly impoverished by the late wars. Ancient Correspondence, xxxiv, No. 167. [Sidenote: 1335.] An account of the abandonment of the 10 acres of land known as “Ronsevalcroft,” in Kensyngton, by the brethren of the Hospital of Roncevaux; how the land was taken by Simon de Kensyngton without the King’s licence, escheated to the Crown, and finally restored to the Convent. 12th July; Carlisle. Calend. Close Rolls, 9 Ed. III, p. 423. [Sidenote: 1348-49.] THE BLACK DEATH. [Sidenote: 1379.] The chapel and lands of St. Mary Rounceval seized into the King’s hands in accordance with a statute, dated at Gloucester, for the forfeiture of the lands of schismatic aliens. 2 Ric. II. Cf. Close Rolls, 10 Henry IV, m. 7. 1409, _vide infra_. [Sidenote: 1382.] Nicholas Slake,[17] Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Roncevalles. Footnote 17: Hennessy: “Nov. Repert. Ecclesiast. Paroch. Londin.” Nicholas Slake, Prebendary of Wenlakesbarn; of Erdington in Briggenorth; of Shirecote in Tamworth; Rector of St. Mary Abchurch; and Dean of St. Stephen’s Chapel Royal, Westminster (1396). The King grants a writ of aid for Ralph Archer, Proctor of Nicholas Slake, to arrest and bring before the King and Council all persons whom he shall prove to have collected alms in the realm as proctor of the Hospital, and converted the same to their own use. 18th July. Westminster. Calend. Pat. Rolls, 6 Ric. II, p. 195. [Sidenote: 1383.] Inquisition into the foundation of the Hospital of Rouncevall, before the King’s Court at Westminster. Plac. coram Rege apud West. de term. Mich. 7 Ric. II, Rot. 21 Middx.; also Chancery Miscellanea, 68/466. It appears that the Crown had resumed possession of the Hospital and land and all its possessions after the forfeiture of 1379, and that a cleric, Nicholas Slake, had obtained the Wardenship of the Hospital and Chapel of “Rounsyvale.” On inquisition, however, it was shown that the Hospital and Chapel and its property pertained to the Prior of the Hospital of the Blessed Mary of Rounsyvall, and was accordingly restored. 23rd April. Cf. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, edit. 1820, vi, pt. 2, p. 677. [Sidenote: 1389.] Garcias, Canon of Roncivale, ratified as Warden of the Chapel of Roncivall by Charyncroix, at the supplication of the King’s kinsman, Charles of Navarre. 16th November; Westminster. Calend. Pat. Rolls, 13 Ric. II, p. 152. [Sidenote: 1390.] John Hadham, the King’s clerk, Warden of the Hospital of St. Mary of Ronsyvale at Charryng by Westminster. 18th February; Westminster. Calend. Pat. Rolls, 13 Ric. II, p. 205. [Sidenote: 1396.]