1291-09-18, Devises

Order to permit the abbess of Romseye and her tenants without and within the bridge of Bradebrugg to be acquitted of the lawing (exrpeditacione) of their dogs without the bridge aforesaid and in the hamlets pertaining to the manor of Rameseye, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the justice that king Edgar granted the manor of Rameseye, both without and within the said bridge, with the hamlets pertaining to it, to the church of Rameseye in frank almoin, as freely as he held it in demesne, and that the abbess and her tenants without the said bridge with the hamlets pertaining to the manor were always from that time quit of lawing of their dogs without the bridge and in the hamlets until the time of William de Briwere, who unjustly exacted such lawing from them when he had the custody of the forest of La Bere near Winchester, and that the abbess and her tenants had peace from the lawing from that time until the time when John Maunsell had the custody of the forest, who then caused the lawing to be levied again by one Alan, then his bailiff in that forest, by force and his domination, and so afterwards the foresters who now are levy the lawing there, to the damage of the abbess and against her liberty. Ff. 179 eee ee John de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent.