8 A HISTORY OF LONGRIDGE. [Chap. 1. 



inclosed, one for a year, and the other for five weeks, until Robert and 

 the others leveUod a paling they had made round them, and they said 

 besides that they are lords of the said town, and that there is sufficient 

 pasture for Robert and the others "ad tenementa sua extra predicta 

 2)hceas.'" The Jury found that Thomas and Adam are lords of the 

 land '■'■ et soli 'prcdictarum placcarum'''' and inclosed the places and kept 

 them enclosed until Robert and the others levelled the paling, and that 

 Robert, etc., had sufficient pasture for their holdings, and free entry 

 and exit "prefer predidas plaeeas incliisas." Et dicunt precise, that 

 Robert, etc., unjustly disseised Thomas and Adam, who are, therefore, 

 adjudged to recover seisin "per visam rccognitorum,'" and the others 

 are fined. 



At Lancaster Assizes, July 1292, Tho. de Singelton and Adam de 

 Hoghtone were sued for unjustlj' disseising " Rob. de Pokelington 

 jjersoiuim ecclesie de Rybbelcestre " of the eighth part of 200 acres of 

 wood and 100 more " et bruers" in Dj'Ueworth. Thomas said that 

 Katerina, formerly wife of Alan de Singleton, his father, and Thomas 

 de Clyftone, now her husband, holds a third part of two parts of the 

 said tenements in dower. Adam said that "Agnes mafertera sua" 

 held the third part of two parts of the said tenements in dower. 

 Robert could not gainsay that Agnes and Katerina held these third 

 j)arts, and therefore took nothing by his writ and was fined for a false 

 claim. 



Od 15 Jul}', 1292, Rob. de Pokelingtone persona ecclesie de Ribbel- 

 cestre sued Thomas de Singeltone, Adam de Hoghtone, Thomas de 

 Clj'ftone and Katherina, his wife, and Agnes " que fiiit uxor Ade de 

 Hoghtone, de oetave parte Bucentarum aerarum busci et Diicentarum acrarum 

 pasture more Bniere et Brusseti " in Dilleworth. Adam de Hoghtone 

 said that he inherited the mediety of the said tenements from his 

 father, Adsim de Hoghtone. Thomas de Singeltone said he held the 

 fourth part by gift of Robert Mutin, who is living and who is not 

 named in the wiit. Robert said that after this gift he was in seisin of 

 the tenements as a freehold, which Thomas denied. The jm-y found 

 that Robert never was in seisin, and so could not be disseised. He 

 was thoioforo fined for a false claim. 



