1344-05-12, Berkhamp

To William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before king. Whereas it is found by inquisition taken by the king's order and into chancery that Richard le Baroun of Wroxhale was born at and his father was one Walter Baroun of Bouecombe, a bondthere, who married a widow of the bondage of Wroxhale holding 14 of land in the bondage of Wroxhale according to the custom of the of Wroxhale, and that Richard Baroun held the said land for life of I freely for rendering 23s. 24d. yearly at the manor of Wroxhale, that king's charter, and that after Richard Baroun s death one his son entered the land and held it peacefully by the, rent, and because the said charter shown before the king in his appears to be false, and the king believes it to have been made, he sends it to the justices enclosed with these ordering them to view the charter and the tenor of the said and after calling the king's serjeants and others as they see fit, proceed to the discussion of the charter and to cause justice to be done accordance with the law and custom of the realm.