1375-03-22, Westminster

To the sheriff. of Essex. Order, upon the petition of John Stele, John Ealand and John Wasket of Ying Hospitall, by mainprise of Nicholas Hokkee and Philip Trikyer of Sussex to stay the taking of their bodies, bringing this writ before the justices of the Bench at the day divers writs de judicio against them at the suit of the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England and Lawrence Clerk of Downham are returnable; as their petition shews that the said prior and Lawrence are impleading them before the said justices for vertain alleged trespasses, and that by the said writs order is given to take their bodies so as to have them at the days set therein before the said justices, although they are ready to answer the plaintiffs and stand to right in all things; and the said Nicholas and Philip have mainperned in chancery under a pain of 40/. to have their bodies before the said justices at the aforesaid days.