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[001] who has them. Of the chattels of slain jews and their pledges, debts and charters,
 [002] and who has them. Of forgers and clippers of coins. Of the king's money and
 [003] exchange: that is, who has counterfeited money and exchanged money without
 [004] [leave of] the king or his justices. Of burglars and malefactors and their harbourers
 [005] in time of peace. Of fugitives: if any have returned after flight without the permission
 [006] of the lord king. Of outlaws and their chattels: who has them, and whether
 [007] outlaws have returned without warrant. Of those who have not pursued as they
 [008] ought outlaws and burglars who crossed their lands. Of markets altered from one
 [009] day to another without the king's licence, except from a Sunday; and whether any
 [010] market has recently been established without the permission of the lord king. Of
 [011] new customs assumed, whether on land or water: who has assumed them and
 [012] where. Of bribes taken for ensuring that corn and other goods shall not be seized
 [013] for munitioning castles; and also of prises taken by the sheriff, constable or other
 [014] bailiffs without the consent of those who owned the said chattels. Of defaults, that
 [015] is, of those who have been summoned to be here before the justices and are not
 [016] present, and of those who did not come on the first day. Of gaols delivered without
 [017] the warrant of the lord king; also of those who have held the pleas of approvers
 [018] without warrant. Of the escape of thieves. Of wreck of the sea. Of poachers in
 [019] parks and fishponds: who they are;1 also of pigeon-houses: those who catch
 [020] pigeons returning to pigeon-houses.2 Of rapine and prises inflicted upon strangers:
 [021] by whom done, when, where, and who now holds. Of those who, having no special
 [022] liberty, do not allow the king's bailiffs to enter their lands to make summonses,
 [023] attachments or distraints for the king's debts or for pleas or other things. Of
 [024] bailiffs who have taken gifts or bribes for removing recognitors from juries and
 [025] assises; also of sheriffs and bailiffs who have taken ransoms from squires holding a
 [026] whole knight's fee or having twenty pounds worth of land, that they not be made
 [027] knights at the king's command, though the sheriffs and other bailiffs have had
 [028] special instructions thereon from the king about making such as are of full age
 [029] knights.3 Of sheriffs

Notes

1. Prior to 1248: Wiltshire Crown Pleas, 30; cf. Selden Soc. vol. 60, clxii, Richardson in E.H.R., lix, 37

2. Richardson in Traditio vi, 82

3. Wiltshire Crown Pleas, 31

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