1298-06-12, Northallerton

To the justices of the Bench. Whereas the abbot and convent of Mary's, York, claim to have this liberty by the charter of King the king's great-grandfather, that the men of St. Mary's, York, not go to county [courts] or shire-moots (shiras), or the courts of (T'rithinga) or wapentakes or hundreds, nor for the sheriff or his but if the sheriff or his ministers should have a complaint the said men, they should inform the abbot thereof and should to the court of St. Mary's at a fixed day, and should there have of their capital plea, and St. Mary's should have whatever to its court, which liberty the abbot and convent and their have always used heretofore from the time of the making of the said as they say: the king orders the justices to permit the abbot and and their men to use and enjoy the said liberty before them as ought to do and as they and their predecessors and their men have used them from the time of the making of the charter, William son of Nicholas de Mitton acknowledges that he owes to Robert Cliderow 10/.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and in co. Lancaster. Roger de Inkepenne of co. Berks, Walter de Bedewelle of co. Hertford, le Clerk, Roger Cartewrithe, Simon Roufard, Roger le Forester, Ouling, Ralph de Scitgate, John son of Michael, John le Barkere, son of Henry, Robert le Flanere, and Henry le Daye of co. Lincoln that they owe to William de Hamelton and John de 160/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and