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next before the County Court. At that day came the attorney 

 of the Prior upon the place, and the abbot did not come, 

 Whereupon the attorney of the Prior challenged his default and 

 the sheriff appointed a day for him at the next county court. 



At a fourth county court, to wit, on Monday next after the 

 translation of the blessed Thomas the Martyr came John of 

 Basing the attorney of the prior of St. Swithin of Winchester and 

 offered himself against the aforesaid abbot and demanded judg- 

 ment on the default and then on the afforcement. 



At a fifth county court, to wit, on the feast of S. Laurence 

 John of Basing the attorney of the prior offered himself against 

 the abbot (who appeared) and claimed the record and his 

 judgment and principally on the ground of default. And because 

 the county did not know what had been done at the place it 

 declined to make a record concerning it. And then it was thus 

 said by John of Baioc (?) ' Because the abbot when summoned 

 did not appear at the place, let him be distrained to come to the 

 same place and there execute the mandate of our lord the King 

 concerning the making of a reasonable partition.' And the sheriff 

 undertook to distrain the abbot and a day was given at the place, 

 to wit, the day of the blessed Bartholomew. At that day came 

 both parties : and after hearing the writ of our lord the King the 

 knights who were present marked out the boundaries. Against 

 whom the attorney of the prior protested saying that he did not 

 put himself upon them to make the boundaries. Afterwards 

 before the sheriff he pointed out the land which he claimed and 

 by what bounds and pleaded against the Abbot, who appeared, 

 concerning his right and the Abbot denied it, when where and as 

 he ought : and he put forward two exceptions saying ( i ) that the 

 prior was not before the court not having a sufficient attorney 

 because &c. and (2) that the mandate of our lord the King for the 

 26$ making of the boundaries was executed and accordingly, as it 

 seems, he is not bound to answer as to that ; but if it shall be 

 necessary, he will say something further. 



A sixth county court on the vigil of the Nativity of the blessed 

 Mary, John the attorney of the prior essoined himself against 



