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whetlier it be to tbe damage or prejucllce of us or of others, 

 if we concede to Philip de Thorlakeston that he have power 

 to give and assign to our beloved in Christ the Prior and 

 Convent of Taunton one messuage and six ferlings of land 

 with its appurtenances in Thorlakeston, to be held by the 

 Said Prior and Convent and their successors for ever, or 

 not. And if it be to the damage or prejudice of us or of 

 others, then to what damage or prejudice of us, and to what 

 damage or prejudice of others, and of whom, and of what 

 sort, and in what v/aj, and of whose fee that messuage 

 and land be, and how many are the middle men between 

 US and the aforesaid Philip, and how much that messuage 

 and land be worth a year in all outgoings. And that you 

 send US without delay that Inquisition distinctly and fitly 

 made under your seal and the seals of them by whom it 

 shall have been made, and this writ. Witness myself at 

 "VVestminster, the sixth day of May, in the eighteenth year 

 of our reign." Indorsed : — " The Inquisition which by 

 that writ has been made is to this writ attached." * 

 Then comes the verdict of the jury so assembled : — 

 " Inquisition made before the SherifF by oath of Eichard 

 de Nywton, John de Marisco, Simon le Bret, Simon 

 Michel, David le Vygur, Thomas Lambryth, James de 

 Orcharde, John de Treberge, Luke Mody, John "VVyion, 

 Eichard le Hare, and John de Develiz, who say upon their 

 oath that if our lord the King should concede that Philip 

 de Thurlockcston should have power to give and assign to 

 the Prior and Convent of Tanton one messuage and six 

 ferlings of land with the appurtenances in Thurlockcston, 

 to be held by the said Prior and Convent and their succes- 

 sors for ever, it would not be to the damage or prejudice of 



* Inquis. ad qd. dam. 18 Edw. I, n. 63. 



