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 412 THE FORGERY OF FINES July junior clerks, Durant and Bumel tellers, while Bukke and Harsham were messengers or porters.^ A number of the jurors had been Coppedale's colleagues in the work of rearranging the records, but apparently the only question put to them was the guilt of Kernetby. H. G. Richardson. I Curia Regis Roll, no. 205, m. 19. HilL 56 Hen. III. Stratton v. Bishop, Dean and Chapter of Lincoln and Prior of Coventry. Hearing before the King's Council, 1272} Postea in Octabis Purificacionis beate Marie anno predicto coram domino Rege et consilio suo venit predictus Adam Gustos predicti heredis et similiter predicti Prior, Decanus et Capitulum per attornatos suos. Et predictus custos respondet ad predictum finem ad quem predictus prior se precise tenuit sicut patet superius in recordo, et dicit quod cedula ilia quam profert sub specie finis facti in Curia domini Regis non est finis set quedam cedula falsa et quod numquam placitum fuit in Curia domini Regis inter Galfridum Marmiun auum predicti heredis et predictum Galfridum quondam Priorem de Couentria predecessorem predicti Prioris de aduocacione predicte ecclesie, nee predicta concordia in predicta cedula contenta vnquam retractata aut recitata fuit' in eadem Curia nee aUquis finis inde leuatus, et hoc paratus est uerificare sicut Curia considerauerit tam per pedes Cirographorum qui sunt in Thesauro domini Regis de anno et termino contentis in predicta cedula, videUcet de quindena Pasche anno domini Regis nunc sexto quam per rotulos de eodem termino et anno precedenti, aut eciam per patriam si Curia considerauerit. Et desicut predictus Prior non dedicit quin predictus Robertus antecessor predicti heredis presentasset predictum Willelmum clericum suiun ad predictam ecclesiam, nee potest ostendere quod post presentacionem illam aliquem clericum suum presentasset ad eandem, eo quod ad hoc quod prius dicebat quod predictus Galfridus quondam Prior de Couentria predecessor suus post confectionem predicti finis ut asserit presentauerat prefatiun Gal- fridum clericum suum ad eandem ecclesiam noluit se tenere, set responsio- nem illam reUquit et precise se tenuit ad finem predictum qui nuUus est, quod paratus est verificare sicut predictum est, precise petit indicium et possessionem predicti heredis. Et quia predictus heres, qui visus est in Curia, est infra etatem et nescit placitare, set predictus custos eius petit possessionem antecessoris ipsius heredis sicut predictum est, ideo de • The document iii b, printed below, refers to Innocent, Branketre, Clisseby, Durant, and Bukke : the following references to the Issue Rolls are cited for an exact descrip- tion of the post occupied by three of these and by four others who served on the jury. Clisseby and Branketre, aubclerici, no. 457, m. 19, no. 460, in. 21 ; Edryk (Ederik), no. 457, mm. 19, 23, no. 460, m. 21, and Pabenham, hostiarii, no. 457, m. 19, no. 460, m. 21 ; Bumell, numerator, Buk, garcio, no. 460, m. 21 ; Harsham, see p. 407, n. 4, above ; he is garcio Hoatiar^ de Recepta, no. 459, m. 25. Several of the jury are men- tioned in other places on these rolls, and Lincoln, Fulmere, and Martel, who do not appear there by name, could probably be traced with little diflSculty on other rolls about this time. abstract of the earlier proceedings appears in Abbreviatio Placitorum, p. 182. ' ' aut. . . fuit ' repeated in manuscript.