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[001] Of the chattels of foreigners owing allegiance to the king of France seized while
[002] the king was in Gascony, to whom they have come etc.1 Of money for defaults
[003] taken by bailiffs from those who did not come at the sheriff's summons: who took
[004] it and how much. Of those who have established a warren without proper warrant.
[005] Of mainpernors who undertook to have someone before the justices at their coming
[006] and did not produce him on the first day. Of those who have carried off writs and sold
[007] them to the other party whereby the king lost what he was entitled to. Of treasure
[008] trove.

The writ of general summons for an eyre at Shipway in the county of Kent within the liberty of the Cinque Ports.


[010] 2‘The king to his beloved and faithful bailiffs of Hastings, greeting. We order you
[011] to lay aside all obstacles and to be at Shipway on such a day before our beloved
[012] and faithful [justices], such persons, and to cause twenty-four of the more lawabiding
[013] and responsible barons of Hastings and others then to come there, as they
[014] are wont and ought to come to the court of Shipway, to answer before our aforesaid
[015] justices with respect to the chapters set out below: Pleas of the crown heard by
[016] the justices at Shipway but not then determined. New crown pleas which have
[017] arisen within your liberty in time of peace since the last eyre of the justices at
[018] Shipway. Of those who were in the king's mercy etc. Of churches etc. Of the assises
[019] of cloth etc. Of escheats etc. Of those who committed robbery by land or water
[020] after peace had been proclaimed. Of purprestures etc. Of measures etc. Of wines
[021] sold etc. Of treasure etc. Of the chattels of Frenchmen etc. Of forgers etc. Of
[022] burglars etc. Of markets etc. Of exchange etc. Of fugitives etc. Of bribes etc. Of
[023] new customs etc. Of defaults etc. Of gaols etc. Of rapine etc. Of ships captured in
[024] war and released by William of Wrotham: to whom they were released and who
[025] has them, or what has been done regarding them.3 Of those who sold ships or
[026] timber for constructing ships to the enemies of the king's father and his own in
[027] contravention of the king's father's prohibition. You are also to cause all pleas and
[028] attachments which are wont and ought to come and be determined before the
[029] justices holding pleas at Shipway to come before our said justices at the aforesaid
[030] term. Witness etc.’ Likewise and in



Notes

1. Prior to 1248: Wiltshire Crown Pleas, 32; cf. Richardson in E.H.R., lix, 37

2. Rot. Litt. Cl., ii, 213 (1227); see the n. to this passage: infra v

3. Brooks in E.H.R., xl, 570-79


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