I02 GLEANINGS FROM THE ASSIZE ROLLS FOR DERBYSHIRE. 



he levied a fine between them in the same court before 

 Gilb. de Preston and his fellow justices concerning the 

 same tenement, &c., which testified that the s"* Hugo 

 recognized the said property to be the right of Henry and 

 Joan as those which Hen. and Joan had of his gift,* and 

 for this recognition Henry and Joan conceded to the s'' 

 Hugo the said property. Holding the same to Hugo for 

 his life of the s'' Henry and Joan, and the heirs of Joan, and 

 after his decease the property to revert to Henry and Joan, 

 and the heirs of Joan. On this ace' he sought judgment 

 if the aforesaid tenement without the said Joan, who was not 

 named in the brief, could or ought to be drawn into 

 judgment. 



Geoffry de Dethic acknowledged that the s'' property 

 remained to the heirs of Henry and Joan by the s'' fine, 

 but in fact he said that the aforesaid Hugo de Duyn (after 

 the said property remained to him for his life by the fine) 

 enfeoffed Richard, his son, and placed him in full possession, 

 by which gift and feofment Richard remained in possession 

 for tliree or four years. And he said that the same Rich'' 

 afterwards of his good seisin enfeoffed Geoffry of the s'' ten' 

 and put him in full possession, and he exhibited a certain 

 charter under the name of the same Richard which testified 

 that Rich'' gave and granted the property to Geoffry, and 

 also another charter which the said Hugo de Dun made to 

 Richard of the same property which similarly testified to 

 the gift of the same Hugo. And he said that by the gift 

 and enfeoffment of the same Richard he, Geoffry, was in 

 good possession of the s'' tenement, &c., ordering, possessing, 

 cutting trees, and performing other works as was usually 

 done by those who held in peaceful possession, until the 

 said Henry and others ejected him. And so he put himself 

 on the assize. 



Henry replied as he first said, that Joan, his wife, had 



* See Vol. XVI., i68. No. 6 of the Breadsall Charters. 



