1334-04-06, Rockingham

Cancelled on payment. To Robert de Ufford, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who his place. The king has learned from the plaint of the community the realm by their petition before him and his council in the last pariiaat York, that if any animals enter by a breach into the king's separable of his forests, the foresters of those places take and detain them as until they receive a heavy redemption for the same, at their will, and cause animals found without those hays to be chased into the hays and them, so that they may take such redemptions for them for their own not permitting them to be replevied by the sheriff or to be delivered, to very great depression of the people of those parts, wherefore they have the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the not to permit such duress to be inflicted on his people by the or other ministers of those forests, but to hear the complaints of all wish to complain of such duress, and to cause a remedy to be speedily and justice to be done, the assize of the Forest being observed as is By pet. of C.