1377-06-08, Westminster

Commission of oyer and terminer to Robert Bealknap, Edward de Sancto Johanne, knight, John Kyngesfold, Nicholas Wilcombe and William Batesford, on complaint by William Percy, sheriff of Sussex, that when he had sent his men to the city of Chichester to hold his court there as accustomed, Walter Onyng, mayor of that city, John Apulderham and John Chese, bailiffs thereof, and others assaulted his under-sheriff and men in open court, so that they went in fear and durst not and still dare not hold it. Moreover they seized and imprisoned both the king's and his bailiffs, when in the execution of their duty, so that divers writs and pleas then pending in court are disraigned. By bill of C. 3.