1291-05-08, Norham

The like to Gilbert de Thornton and Roger Brabazun, reciting that Alice, late the wife of Thomas de Horewrth, lately brought an appeal at Westminster before John de Metingham and his fellows, justices of the Bench, against William de Moubray and Matilda his wife and William son of William de Mubray for the death of her husband, and that the said appeal having been quashed, the appellees were bound over to the next assizes of the justices in eyre in the county of York, there to stand their trial at the king's suit, but that certain of their ill-wishers have obtained a writ of appeal against them to appear at the said assizes, so that they are in danger of being taken and imprisoned and prevented from prosecuting their pleas commenced in the Bench to hear and determine immediately in the county of York the appeal at the king's suit. The justices of the Bench have been ordered to send the said commissioners the record and process of the said appeal before them.