134 THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
Johannes da la Cornerc cito postea tulit breve super eodem et coram eisdem 
cum quo pacem fecimus aput Betfort pro i. marca ad opus ipsius et ad opus 
Regis x. s. 
FoLio 83. 
[ Zranslation. | 
Magister Richard de Lavinton, the Rector of the Church of Thorp, by papal 
authority, impleaded the Abbot and Convent before judges delegated at Oxford 
respecting the small tythes (super minutis decimis) of our land in Huncindon. 
Afterwards at Esseburne, by the meditation of Magister John de Weston, an 
end was put to the dispute in this way. For the sake of peace we gave the 
said Magister Richard 5 marks, and entered into an obligation to pay him 2 
marks annually on the Feast. of the Nativity of St. John so long as he held the 
Church of Thorp. 
Fouio 84. 
[ Translation. | 
A dispute having arisen and continued for some time between the Abbot 
John and Henry de Tok, the brother and heir of Sir Peter de Thok, respecting 
his relief and suit of court ; at length, A.D. 1275, on the Day of St. Laurence, 
at Burton, the said Henry, in the presence of Roger de Thok his brother and 
of Ralph de Burgo, conceded that so far as the relief was concerned, the said 
Henry and his heirs should give to the Abbot for their relief of Ansedele and 
Pothlac xl. s., but should nevertheless pay fully the ferm due for the said vills 
at the appointed terms ; and as regarded the suit of court, the said Henry and 
his heirs should be bound to make two appearances annually, and likewise 
whenever the King’s writ was in the Court, or for the judgment of prisoners 
and for the reinforcement (afforciamentum) of the Court. And whereas the 
Abbot claimed from him common suit of court, viz., from three weeks to three 
weeks, and claimed also that the whole land of Ansedele was within the 
warren of the said Abbot, and that it was not lawful for him to hunt or take 
hares within it, by the advice of friends it was agreed that the said Henry 
should swear ‘‘ tactis sacrosanctis” that none of his predecessors had ever done 
common suit to the court of the Abbot excepting his brother Peter, who had 
been unjustly compelled to it, and that he, Henry, and all his predecessors 
could lawfully chase and take all kind of animals (‘‘ omnias bestias”) within 
the metes of Ansedele, three times only excepted. Accordingly on the Sun- 
day after the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, A.D. 1277, in 
the presence of the Lord Abbot Thomas, Andrew the Almoner (‘‘ Elemosi- 
narius”), Adam the Hospitaller, John the Sub-Prior and Precentor, N. the 
Chaplain of the Abbot, Thomas the Sacristan, W. Coquinarius, W. Celerarius, 
