Nine writs fastened together by a parchment thong:
1) Precept of W. de Greynwill, sheriff of Berkshire to the bailiff of the seven hundreds of Cokham and Braye [Cookham and Bray], repeating the mandate of King E[dward I] to distrain on the Prioress of Bromhale [Broomhall] to appear on St Hilary morrow before the Barons of the Exchequer at Westminster and answer about the the issue of 62 acres, 6 perches, and 2.5 feet in le Frith from the time during which he has held them by royal precept
2) Precept of W. de Greynuill, as before, repeating a writ of Edward I ordering him to grant a respite (honere in respectum) to the Prioress of Broomhall for a month as from Easter last past in the matter of the issue of lands, as above; and to restore the goods he has taken; dated at Westminster, 23 April 18 Edward I (1290) at the instance of John de Bereuike [Berwick]
3) Exchequer writ of Edward I, ordering the sheriffs of Oxfordshire and Berkshire to give peace to the Prioress of Broomhall in the matter of the lands in le Frith, and to give back the goods they had taken; since Galfridus de Picheford came before the Barons and acknowledged that he had delivered the land to the Prioress, by royal command, to make up the hundred acres granted by the King. Witness P. de Cestr' [Chester], at Westminster, 17 May 18 Edward I (1290)
4) Original writ of Edward I, ordering the sheriff of Surrey to see that William Baudri de la Wodecote warrants to the Prioress of Broomhall the 40 shillings of rent in Wyndlesham [Windlesham] and Bagsete, which she claims to hold of him. And he shall do so with his goods, or else appear before the King's justices at Westminster a fortnight after Michaelmas, to show why he did not. Witness the King himself at Berewyk [Berwick], 26 August 24 Edward I [1296].
5) Writ of Henry III, ordering the justices about to go in eyre for forest pleas in Surrey to restore to the Prioress of Broomhall the wood which she had wrongly felled in Windsor forest, for the rebuilding of her house, which had been burned. On account of the poverty of her and her house, the justices are to take no action; and she is pardoned. Witness the King himself, at Windels(ore) [Windsor], 1 May 53 Henry III [1269]. Transcribed in Calendar of Close Rolls 1268-72, p. 51 (link to online edition below)
6) Writ of Henry III, ordering Nicholas de Yatingeden, constable of Windsor Castle, to enquire of the foresters and rangers of the royal forest, whether it would be to the royal loss if he allowed the Abbess [sic - should be Prioress] and nuns of Broomhall to sell wood to the value of forty pounds out of their wood of ywshot within the bounds of the forest, in order to repair their church and other buildings; if so, to what extent. Witness the King himself, at Westminster, 20 January 54 Henry III [1270]
7) Writ, ordering the sheriff of Surrey to see that Richard Russell of Trottisworthe restores to Agnes, Prioress of Broomhall, eight acres of land in Hegeham [Higham], of which Juliana, her predecessor, was seized on the day of her death. Undated; c. 40-50 Henry III
8) Writ of novel disseisin of Edward I, to the sheriff of Surrey about the dispute between the Prioress of Broomhall and the Abbot of Cherteseye [Chertsey], about a holding in Chertsey. If the prioress gives the sheriff security for prosecuting her claim, he is to hold the holding and the chattels until the justices come. And he shall find twelve free and lawful men, to be ready to appear before the justices and make acknowledgements; and find sureties for the appearance of the Prior {sic: should be Abbot) or his bailiff on the same occasion. Witness the King himself, at Canterbury, 26 April 22 Edward I [1294]. Signed Wodeford.
9) Writ of justices ordering the sheriff of Surrey to see that Gilbert de la Bare de Holeye acquits the prioress of Broomhall for the service which the Abbot of Certeseye exacts from her for the free tenement which the Prioress of Broomhall holds from Gilbert ... her as she says, under pain of distraint. Witness the King himself, at Wodestoke [Woodstock], 11 August 3 Edward I or II? (1275?).