1300-05-10, Bury St. Edmunds

To the sheriff of Northampton. Whereas Philip de Gayton, one of those of the sheriff's bailiwick whom the sheriff caused to be chosen by the king's special order by the assent of the coroners and community of the county and to be sent to York on the morrow of the Ascension, to do and execute those things that should be then enjoined upon them on the kine s behalf for the observing the Great Charter of the liberties of England and the charter of the Forest, has been chosen in co. Warwick, and has been appointed by the king with other his subjects of that county to hear and determine trespasses against the tenors of the said charters, so that he cannot attend to the execution of the premises in the sheriff's county: the king orders the sheriff to cause another to be chosen in Philip's place by the assent of the coroners and community, who shall attend to these affairs in that county, together with those who were there chosen and who were sworn before the king for this purpose, according to the form of the power to be delivered to those elected and to him by the king, and to certify the king of the name of the one thus elected without delay, so that the king may cause his letters patents of their power to be made to them. [Parl.