1303-09-20, Kinloss

To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Ascote, who cannot execute the duties of coroner because he is imprisoned at Oxford for certain trespasses that he is said to have committed in the forest of Whicchewode. To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas Ralph de Monte Hermerii, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Joan, his wife, the king's daughter, and certain of their ministers of their liberty of Kilkenny are molested before the justiciary concerning the taking of John le Blunt, William le Crockar, Adam le Crockar, and Walter le Blunt and their detention in the earl and Joan's prison, and they have a day concerning this to answer before the justiciary in fifteen days from Michaelmas: the king, as the earl is with him in Scotland in his service, orders the justiciary to supersede this matter entirely and to respite it in the same state in which it now is until the quinzaine of Easter next. If any process have been made in anything touching this matter after the date of this writ to the damage or prejudice of the earl and countess or of their ministers or of their liberty aforesaid, the justiciary shall cause it to be put in respite until the said quinzaine in the same state in which it was in at the date of this writ. By p.s. (8453.]