Another pone concerning services and customs at the petition of the demandant.
[002] The king to the sheriff, greeting. At the petition of the demandant put before our [003] justices at Westminster on such a day the plea which is in your county court by our [004] writ between A. the demandant and B. the deforciant with respect to the customs and [005] services which the same A. demands from the aforesaid B. from his free tenement [006] which he holds of him in such a vill etc. And summon the aforesaid B. by good summoners [007] to be there to reply to the aforesaid A. with respect to it. And have there the [008] summoners and this writ and the other writ. Witness etc. It says the other writ for [009] this reason, as where the plea is in the county court by some writ close between persons [010] for a debt or other thing, and thus is not [a writ] patent, which ought to remain [011] with the demandant. But suppose the tenant vouches to warranty in the county court [012] before the plea has been put before the justices of the bench, so that the warrantor has [013] a day before the justices itinerant because he did not warrant at once at the sheriff's [014] order; will mention not be made in the pone of the warrantor? No, because in the [015] king's court, after essoins and delays, the demandant will begin to count against the [016] tenant, since the warrantor has not yet warranted in the county court, and the tenant [017] will then begin to vouch his warrantor anew; the day given before the justices itinerant [018] will be null. This writ of pone seldom issues at the petition of the tenant, as was [019] said above, unless with cause, which may be of many kinds, as where a tenant has [020] been for a long time in parts across the sea, or is so weak that he cannot appear in the [021] county court, or, on the other hand, if the demandant is related to the sheriff, or his [022] servant or close follower, or if he is very powerful and a buzo of the county.1 A pone of [023] that kind is drawn thus, with the reason expressed.
Pone at the petition of the tenant, with the reason.
[025] The king to the sheriff, greeting. At the petition of the tenant, because he is in parts [026] abroad, (or because the demandant is a friend or follower of the sheriff or the like), [027] put before our justices on such a day the plea pending in your county court by our [028] writ of right between A. the demandant and B. the tenant concerning so much land [029] with the appurtenances in such a vill. And instruct the aforesaid A. to be there at that [030] time ready to prosecute his suit against the aforesaid B. if he wishes. And have there [031] this writ. Witness etc. And note that if the tenant, for whatever reason, has sued out [032] his pone before the justices, and on the first day before them defaults, he will have to [033] waive his pone or lose by default. Suppose that the demandant defaults on the first [034] day,