1342-07-02, Tower

sheriff of Lancaster and the coroners of that county. Because learned from the testimony of divers men of the county that Adam son of William de Radeclyve, appealed in that county without writ, Henry de Twiselton, Katherine de Pudesay, Henry de Robert son of Philip de Clayton, Richard de Westeby, Simon de Morlay, Robert de Morlay, Richard Mauncell, John William de Raucestr[ia], William de Halton, Laurence de Adam de Mithop, John son of John de Catherton of Craven, North, John his brother, Thomas son of Richard de Goldeburgh, Stale, Nigel le Cu of Sallay, John de Hawedon, chaplain, Robert monk, William son of John de Boulton, bastard, William de of Mithop, Thomas de Marton of Elslak, William de Kelbrok de Wolynton of Thornton for robbery and breach of the king's Henry and the others brought divers writs for removing that the king, the sheriff cunningly pretending that there was a between the writs aud the appeal, has hitherto delayed to remove before the king, and has placed those appealed in exigent: the that such appeals can only be determined before him or orders the sheriff, notwithstanding any variation between the the appeal, to cause the appeal to come before the king on the Michaelmas, with the attachments and all other things touching tell Adam that his appeal shall be pursued there, if he wishes, the exigents and outlawry against Henry and the others, shall appear in person before the king on the said day to his contempt. to the same concerning the appeal which Matilda de Ratthedale Anabilla late the wife of Richard de Bolton, John Ivesone, and Thomas de Halghton, for a robbery.