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and many others, the said Henry made oath in the form above written. Four 
Chaplains made oath in the same manner before Sir William de Meinil, Ralph 
de Burgo, Roger de Thok, Robert de Munjoye, Engelardus de Cursun, 
Robert de Staunton, Milo de Melton, William junior of Rolveston, William le 
Sergant of Eginton, Elyas Fucher of Osmundeston, Robert de Schobenhale, 
John le Marescal, Robert son of Adam de Waleton, Walter the man (‘‘ homo ”’) 
of the said Henry, John the man (‘‘ homo”) of the said Henry, and Robert 
Cocus. 
Fouio 85. 
Tertio Kalend Marcii in pleno Hundredo de Wyrkesworthe tento apud 
Esseburne in presentia Domini Thome de Bray tunc Seneschalli Domini 
Edmundi, venit Rogerus de Thorp et optulit se ad faciendum Domino 
Edmundo fidelitatem pro tenemento suo de Thorp et Huncendon et fecit, et de 
homagio habuit respectum usque ad adventum in partibus istis. 
De placito moto inter Abbatem et villanis de Magna Overa. 
This is a long account of the suit between the Abbot and his customary 
tenants of Mickle-Over, who claimed to be free tenants. It states that when 
the Abbot’s villains of Magna Ouvra, at the instigation of one Nicholas, son of 
Henry the Provost of Magna Ouvra, whom the Abbot had greatly honoured, 
and to whom he had committed for many years the custody of the manor of 
Bromley, refused to acknowledge themselves as villains, nor would permit a 
distress to be levied against them, the Abbot sued out a writ from the ‘‘ Curia 
Regia ” in this form. 
Here follows a writ of King Edward dated from Clarendon, 18th February, 
8th year of his reign, commanding the Sheriff of Derbyshire to assist the 
Abbot of Burton in distraining his villains of Magna Ouvra. This writ was 
delivered to the Sheriff of Derbyshire on the last day of February in full 
County, and his bailiff was ordered to assist the Abbot on the requisition of 
the latter. 
Fouio 86. 
A writ of King Edward, dated Clarendon, toth February, in the 8th year of 
his reign, issued on the complaint of ten of the Abbot’s tenants of Mickle-Over, 
commands the Abbot not to exact from his tenants other customs and services 
than were formerly due when Mickle-Over was of the ancient demesne of the 
Crown. 
The narrative goes on to say that by virtue of the first of these two writs, 
the Sheriff’s bailiff seized 21 oxen and 18 pigs at Mickle-Over, at the hour of 
Vespers, 4th March, and took them on the morrow to Burton. 
In the meantime the tenants having produced their writ to the Sheriff, and 
