150 THE BURTON CHARTULARY, 
frankpledge of Huncyndon, the question having again risen owing to a pre- 
sentment of the jury of the wapentake of Wyrkesworth that the Abbot had 
withdrawn it from the Hundred to the prejudice of the King. The record of 
the former decision of the Court of Exchequer is produced by the Abbot.] 
Placita de quo waranto coram W, de Herle et sociis suis Justiciariis Itiner- 
antibus apud Derbi die Lune proximo post festum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli 
anno R, R. Edwardi III. a Conquestu quarto, 
[ Zranslation. | 
The Abbot of Burton-upon-Trent was summoned to show by what warrant 
he claimed to have free warren in his manors of Stapenhull and Overe and 
their members, and to have sok and sac, and theme and infangenethef, and 
totum corrodium, and that all his men should be quit of toll, ortagium, passa- 
gium, and all other customs. The Abbot produced the Charter of King Henry 
III. granting all the above franchises to his house; and the King’s attorney, 
William de Denum, then prayed that inquiry might be made by a jury as to 
the use of them since the date of the charter.* 
The jury say that from the time of the charter the Abbot and his prede- 
cessors had made full use (dee wsz sunt) of free warren in the said manors, and 
of infangenthef in the manor of Overe and its members, but it had often hap- 
pened that a robber taken open handed (cz manuoperte) in the manor of 
Stapenhull at suit of the peace (ad sectam pacis), was indicted in the Hundred 
Repyndon ; and in the same way of infangethef, they say it was not used in 
the manor of Stapenhull, and the Abbot had no gallows there. It was 
therefore adjudged that the said liberty of infangethef should be taken into the 
King’s hands. Afterwards Thomas de Tuttebyry and Robert de Fynderne 
made fine with the King of 20s. for the Abbot to have back the liberty, and 
the Abbot was told to erect a gallows there (e¢ dictum est et quod levet 
furcas.) 
FOLIO 120. 
This folio contains duplicate copies of the grant of Magister Ralph de 
Chaddesdene for a chantry at Sallowe, the confirmation by the Bishop for the 
same, and the obligation entered into by the Abbot and monks of Burton to 
carry out the bequest. The Bishop’s confirmation is dated a.D, 1271, and is 
witnessed by Magister Alan Breton, Canon of Lichfield, Magister John Kerni, 
Rector of the Church of Sondiacre, Magister John de Cravene, Roger de Dray- 
cote, Clerk, William Teneri of Eyton, Dominus Roger de Eyton, Chaplain, 
and Magister Hugh de Eyton, Clerk. 
* If fallen into desuetude, the franchises were disallowed. 
