1290-02-18, Westminster

To the sheriff of Gloucester. If Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Hssex, find security to prosecute his claim, the sheriff is ordered to attach Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Robert le Veel, Richard le Flemeng, John Luvel, William de Valers, Stephen de Capenore, and John de Crepping, so that he shall have them before the king in fifteen days from Easter to shew cause why they and many others, both horsemen and footmen, entered in arms with banners displayed the said Humphrey s land of Breghenogh, wasted the same to a great extent, and committed homicides and robberies within and without churches and committed arsons in divers places, and erected a castle there within Humphrey s fee and liberty by force and arms, and committed other enormities upon him, although the king, before he last left the realm, ordered his peace to be kept inviolably by the magnates and others of the realm, and although the king afterwards ordered Gilbert and others by divers orders, under pain of grievous forfeiture, and caused proclamation to be made in every county that no one should go with horses and arms or in other armed manner throughout the realm without the king's order, etc.