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right and fee in the s^ ten., &c., and sought judgment if 

 (concerning the same ten. tvithout the aforesaid Joan who is 

 not named in the brief) he could or ought to respond. 



The jury said upon oath that in fact the s'' Hugh de Dun 

 enfeoffed Henry and Joan conjointly w" the tenem' and put 

 them in full possession, and that, after the s'' fine was levied 

 between Hugo and Henry and Joan before Gilbert and 

 his fellow justices at Derby in the 53 H. HI., as is afore- 

 said. 



And that in process of time (after that the s'' ten' remained 

 to Hugo for life by the s'' fine) the same Hugo dishonoured it, 

 and enfeoffed Richard, his son, with same, and by that 

 feofment Rich'' remained in peaceful possession for four 

 years. And they said that Rich'' afterwards, by virtue of 

 his peaceful possession, enfeoffed the same Geoffry of the 

 s'' ten', which same Geoffry by demesne feoffment of the 

 s'' Richard took his seisin of the s'' ten', and remained 

 in the same for 40 days. 



And that the time in which the s'' Geoffry was enfeoffed 

 was when Henry was at the court of our lord the king ; and 

 that the men of the s'' Henry afterwards came to the tene- 

 ment and took the sheep of Geoffry and shut them up until 

 they were liberated by the king's bailiff, and they said that 

 (pending the plea concerning the detention of the s'' cattle 

 against bail and pledge) Henry came into those parts, 

 and as soon as Geoffry knew this, he went to him, and 

 shewed him how his men had taken his cattle and caused 

 him as much loss and damage as the place was worth to 

 him, and prayed him to amend the transgression. 



They said that Henry highly commended the taking of 

 the cattle and the other obstructions if they were effected 

 on the premises. And they said that afterw^' the s'' Geoffry 

 sent to Henry his men, w' their carts, to carry firewood, 

 and that Henry w*" not permit Geoffry to carry the croppings, 

 nor to do any of his business on the said premises, whence 

 they said definitely that the aforesaid Henry and others 



