[001] a port, they, the burgesses as to whom complaint is made, had their vill, borough, [002] city or port at fee-farm of the ancestors of the lord king, to themselves and their [003] heirs, with all the liberties and free customs belonging to their vill, of the gift of [004] such a king, to hold of him and his heirs rendering thence so much each year, who [005] granted it by his charter as freely as he ever most freely had it in his hand on the [006] day upon which he made them that grant. And then let them tender the older [007] charters, if they have such, and the confirmations of succeeding kings. And then [008] they may say that since their charter is of earlier date and [their] liberty earlier in [009] time, no king could grant such liberty to others to their prejudice and injuria, and ask [010] judgment. To which the plaintiffs may replicate that if those of whom they complain [011] have an earlier charter, neither they nor their ancestors ever used such liberty before [012] their liberty was granted to the plaintiffs or their ancestors, namely, that they may [013] take toll in their vill and be quit of toll and of paying customary dues throughout the [014] whole of the king's realm, because no burgess of their vill ever before went to the [015] vill of the said defendants and bought or sold anything or did anything because [016] of which he was required to pay toll or customary dues. To which the defendants [017] may reply that if none of the aforesaid burgesses1 came into their vill to buy or [018] sell anything, nevertheless they have not lost their liberty by non-use, because they [019] took toll and customary dues as soon as they did come and buy, whether this [020] happened before or after the liberty granted to the plaintiffs, for they could not [021] use it earlier. [Or] that before the liberty granted to the plaintiffs they had by [022] reason of their priority used their liberty, in as much as they took toll and [023] customary dues from such a one, who bought or sold such a thing and who gave [024] so much by way of customary due, and from another who [bought] such a thing [025] and gave so much, and so of several, and let them ask that this be enquired into [026] by the country. They can also say that although they had not used, as aforesaid, [027] nevertheless, since their charter is of earlier date and their liberty is the earlier in [028] time, they have not been deprived by non-use since no case had earlier arisen in [029] which they could use, whether that was before the grant of the liberty later made [030] to the plaintiffs or after. They may also say that if they have lost their liberties by [031] non-use they were restored by the lord king, by force of the words in his charter [032] of confirmation which are such, that if by chance they have not used the liberties [033] previously granted them at all, or though they have used them have lost them by [034] non-use, that nevertheless,