1331-02-27, Croydon

Notification of the record of a cause between Edward I. and Adam, then atte prior, and the convent of St. Mary, Carlisle, tried at Carlisle before William Bower. de Vescy, Thomas de Normanvili, and Richard de Creppinges, justices in eyre of the forest, on Saturday the morrow of All Souls, 13 Edward I., on a writ of quo warranto, touching the following liberties in Inglewood Forest, common of pasture in right of their church for the defendants and their tenants within the metes of the forest, tithes of venison and of hay, pannage, aftcr-pannage, agistment of foals, calves, lambs, swine, goats and other animals ; also of fish taken in the lake of Ternwathelan, called Layke brait, the hides of all beasts found dead by the foresters, the right to hunt the hare and fox with their hounds without the covert, that their hounds be quit of expeditation, the right to a charcoal burner to make charcoal for them of all dead wood in the grass, and to such oaks thrown down by the wind as they and their servants can before others mark by an axe stroke to the core, all which the said prior and convent claimed by immemorial usage producing a horn which tkey said was given with the liberties by Henry [I.], the founder of their house; and of a writ, dated 7 February, 14 Edward I, to the aforesaid justices of the forest, directing that the prior and convent were to be permitted tu have the said liberties, saving only oaks thrown down by the wind. By p.s. 2.