144 THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
solvendis, per eundem Robertum occisus est; cujus jus Johannes Irlond, 
dominus de Herteshorne et Willelmus de Stretton clamant habere. 
[The writing on the rest of this folio is illegible from damp and discolora- 
tion. ] 
FoLio 99. 
“«Inquisitio facta pro quintodecima de maneriis de Overa et de Appelby.” 
This is an inquisition taken by Geoffrey de Greseleye, Henry de Braylis- 
ford, and Hugh Tenerey, the collectors of the fifteenth in co. Derby, by writ 
of King Edward, dated from York, 22nd June, in the thirty-first year of his 
reign, to inquire into the liability of the Abbot’s landsin the above manors to 
taxation. The jury, viz., Robert de Muntjoye, Thomas le Pouer, Edmund de 
Aston, Roger de Somervyle, Ralph de Gurney, Ralph de Irlande, Adam de 
Linton, Peter le Porter, John son of Robert de Herteshorne, William Davy of 
Drakelowe, William le Palmer, and Thomas de Thurleston, ‘“ Clericus,” 
stated that the Church of Burton was endowed with Overa and its members of 
Appulby and Winshull excepting four bovates of land in Parva Overa and 
three bovates in Finderne, which were a lay fee, and that all the goods of the 
Abbot and Convent in those manors were ‘ 
came (provenientibus) from the aforesaid seven bovates of land. 
* spiritualia,” excepting those which 
Quod Vicecomes faciat esse rationables divisas inter terram tpsius 
Abbatis in Stapenhull et terram G. de Gresley, 
This is the account of a suit in the county court between the Abbot and 
Geoffrey de Gresley respecting the boundaries of their respective lands of 
Stapenhill and Drakelow, the dispute including the right to three islands and 
a fishery. The Abbot in his claim states that his predecessor Nicholas de 
Abendon the Abbot, was seised of the lands, etc., in dispute in the time of 
King Henry the grandfather of the reigning King. The account ends by 
Geoffrey stating he had appealed toa great assize of the Lord the King, and 
the Abbot denying this fact, which would have withdrawn the suit from the 
County Court, “fet ideo per considerationem Comitatus dictum est ipsi Gal- 
frido quod perquirat sibi breve de ‘ Pone.’”* [No date.] 
Omnibus etc. Johannes de Greseley Chivaler salutem. Sciatis me conces- 
sisse etc. Abbati etc. quod possint adquirere de Laurentio de Ibestoke Clerico 
etc. unum mesuagium, unam carucatam terree etc. in Caldewall, Lynton et 
Drakelowe, quze sunt de feodo et dominio meo etc. His testibus Hugone de 
* A writ of ‘‘ Pone” would remove the suit to Westminster. A record of 
proceedings such as this before a Sheriff sitting in full county is extremely rare, 
these courts not being Courts of Record. 
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