1335-03-10, Coventry

To John Inge, John de Trevaignon and John de Hampton, justices to take assizes in co. Berks, Philip de Thame, prior of the of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and brother Roger de feilow brother of the prior, have shown the king that whereas Fynk lately arramed an assize of novel disseisin before those justices the prior and Roger and others contained in the original writ, cona tenement in Wescote, of which disseisin the prior and Roger and others were convicted before the justices by recognition of that assize which they placed themselves, and 100/. were adjudged to Robert for damages in this respect, and Robert remitted and pardoned the whole those damages in the king's court before the justices; and because the was made by force and arms, the justices ordered the sheriff of the county, by the king's writ, to take the prior and Roger and others they might be found in that bailiwick, to satisfy the king for redemption in this respect; and supplication has been made to the on the part of the prior and Roger because they are ready to satisfy concerning that which pertains to him in the premises, that he will the taking of their persons to be superseded; the king therefore the justices that if upon view of the record and process thereof they find that Robert remitted and pardoned the said damages as aforethen they shall cause the sheriff to supersede the taking of the perof the prior and Roger, receiving from the prior the reasonable fine the king's use for that which pertains to him in the premises. By C.