1276-07-08, Canterbury

the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whereas the barons the Cinque Ports ought not, as they say, to plead or answer appeals or pleas elsewhere than in the king's court of Shipeweye before the of Dover castle, the warden of the said ports, according to their and free customs, and Hugh de Kersingham, John Serles, Luteriche, John his son, Henry Kinnet, Roger le Fauconer, Ralph de Thomas Hermer, Hugh son of Ralph de Cantuaria, Richard Je Robert Thez, and Nicholas Hunfrey, twelve barons of the port of have mainperned before the king for John son of Ralph le Clere Folkestane, their com-baron of the port of Hethe, imprisoned at Neweastle the death of certain men slainon the sea near Neubigging, wherewith is charged, to have him before the said constable, the warden of the said to stand to right in the aforesaid court if anyone wish to speak against the king therefore orders the mayor and bailiffs to deliver the said son of Ralph to the aforesaid men or to four of them,-on condition they shall have him before the said warden ; and to tell all who appeal of the said death to come to the chancery, when the king will cause a to be prefixed for them to prosecute their appeal in the court of Shipweye, will cause justice to be done to them. the taxors of the fifteenth in co. Kent.