1336-11-12, Stirling

To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Whereas lately, at the prosecution of William Shouuyn of Brentyngby and Agnes his wife, by their petition before the king and his . 721 in parliament, asserting that they had demised a messuage and a of land in Brentyngby to Simon de Bereford before he forfeited to king, for the term of a year, and they were taken into the king's hands the other lands which belonged to Simon, by reason of the said aud seeking the restitution of those lands to them, the king the justices by writ to view that petition which he sent to them in the said writ, having heard the plaint of William and Agnes the contents of the same, and to cause what is just and reasonable to done; and although it is found by inquisition taken by the justices that Ralph Shouuyn was seised of the said messuage and land in his demesne of fee and right and that he gave these tenements to William and in free marriage, and that afterwards, because [they made] no profit the said lands on account of various destructions which John de of whom they were held, made to them in the same, for certain they offered the lands to Simon, who caused them to be sown by serjeants, and at another time on his arrival in these parts, having the rights which William and Agnes had there, he agreed well with and immediately departed from those parts; and afterwards on his to the same, having viewed the said muniments and right shown by and Agnes to him, and understanding that the said lands were to them as aforesaid, Simon wished to admit them of the gift of and Agnes, but said that he wished to give them all the crop in those lands sown by him, and immediately departed from those and before he returned he forfeited to the king, wherefore those lands taken into the king's hands; and that Simon never had any other in the messuage and land, as fully appears by the tenor of the record process held thereupon, which the king caused to come before him in but the justices, because the king's attorney alleged in the plea before them, that Simon was enfeeffed for ever by William and Agnes the said lands and died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, delayed proceed further in that plea, whereupon William and Agnes have the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the to view and examine the said record and process, and if they shall that such process has been made in the said plea, then to cause justice be done for them in the premises, and to proceed to render judgment to the verdict of the jurors of the said inquisition with all lawful notwithstanding the said allegation or that the messuage and land are the king's hands or that it is net found by the said inquisition that and Agnes demised the messuage and land to Simon to hold for term of one year, as they suppose by their petition, and that it is found the same inquisition that they have a right in the messuage and land aforesaid. By C.