1335-06-18, Northallerton

To Gilbert Talbot, justice of South Wales, or to him who supplies his Because the king has learned by inquisition taken by the justice Owen de Mongomery that the stewards, constables, reeves and hedels Cantermaure and of Cardiganshire were wont to make distraints, attachand other such offices of the stewards, ete., within the said stewardand outside baronies without a writ being issued (emergencia) and withthe bedels of barons, within these stewardships and outside the said intermeddling with attachments, distraints and other things to be and pursued without a writ, as aforesaid, from the time of the of Wales until the time when Roger de Mortuo Mati, late earl of was justice of Wales; in which time the bedels of barons, by the of Roger, which the men of Cantermaure and of Cardiganshire did then dare to resist, made such attachments and distraints ; and because is not to the harm or prejudice of the king or others if the said stewards, of those places make and pursue attacliments, distraints and other such of the stewards, etc., of those things which issue without a writ in stewardships, and that the bedels of the barons of co. Kermerdyn and are bound to make distraints, attachments and ali other things co. Kermerdyn concerning the lands of barons and within baronies, issuing there, as well by bills as by writs, and to levy the issues thereof ; they ought and were wont to make executions of all the king's writs, within stewardships and baronies, but they ought not to levy the issues writs nor be charged therewith, because the reeves and bedels of the within the said stewardships and without baronies ought and wont to answer therefor in the exchequer of Kermerdyn upon their the king therefore orders the justice to cause the bedels of barons desist from such attachments, etc., within the said stewardships and outside without making a writ otherwise than they ought to do, and they and bedels of the said baronies were wont to do from the time of the conquest Wales, and to permit the stewards and others, of Cantremaure and Carto make and pursue such attachments, ete. of these which issue these stewardships and outside those baronies as they ought to do pursue them, saving always the right of the said barons. By C.