1304-06-16, Stirling

To the sheriff of Northumberland. Whereas the king lately ordered him to cause to be replevied to Emery de Lumly his chattels that William de Tynemuth, Roger Onthebrig, and Nicholas de Carliolo took and unjustly detain, and to cause Emery to be afterwards so justly treated (deduct) that the king should not hear any further complaint in the matter for lack of justice, or to signify to the king why he would not or could not execute the king's order sent to him at another time; and the sheriff has returned that the bailiffs of the liberty of Neweastle-on-Tyne, whom he caused to have return of the writ, answered that Emery s chattels, to wit a tun of woad (wad), containing seven quarters, and 360 ells of canvas were arrested because they were found in the seisin of one John le Fevre among other chattels of John's on the day when John slew Peter le Tailler, for which felony he fled, and that Emery came on the morrow of the perpetration of the felony and sought to have the chattels delivered to him as his own, but the sheriff could not make delivery of them because the coroners of that town has seised them by reason of the felony ; whereupon the king ordered him to make inquiry in the presence of the coroners and bailiffs of that town by the oath of merchants and other men of that county and town whether or not the said tun and canvas belonged to Emery on the day of the commission of the felony, so that John had no share in them, and if so, how they were arrested among John's chattels ; and itis found by the inquisition made and returned into chancery that the tun and canvas were arrested because they were found among John's goods and chattels, as is aforesaid, and that they were Emery s property on the day of the commission of the felony, and that John had no share in them: the king therefore orders the sheriff to cause them to be delivered to Emery to make his advantage thereof, as shall seem best to him. . 151