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 64 END OF NORMAN EARLDOM OF CHESTER January Release and Quitclaim by William de Forz and Christiana his Wife, to the Kino, of her aesnecia in the Earldom of Chester, 16 October 1241. Omnibus Christi fidelibus hoc scriptum visuris Willelmus de Fortibus filius Willelmi de Fortibus quondam comitis Albe Marlie et Christiana uxor eius salutem. Noveritis nos remisisse et quietam clamasse domino nostro H. Regi Anglie Illustri et heredibus suis imperpetuum totam partem que me Christianam contingebat de hereditate que fuit lohannia quondam comitis Cestrie avimculi mei in comitatu Cestrie tam in terris et tenementis quam in libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad esneciam pertinentibus infra comitatum Cestrie pro cuius quieta clamancia prefatus dominus Rex dedit nobis in escambium manerium de Drifield in comitatu Ebor. et manerium de Tingden in comitatu Norhampton. Et nos et heredes nostri ipsi domino Regi et heredibus suis dictam porcionem hereditatis predicte tam in terris et tenementis quam in libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus ad esneciam hereditatis predicte pertinentibus sicut eadem esnecia nobis in curia ipsius domini Regis fuit adiudicata contra omnes homines warantizabimus. Et ut hec nostra remissio et quieta clamancia et warantizacio firma et inconcussa permaneat ipsam sigillorum nostrorum apposicione munivimus. Hiis testibus Venerabilibus patribus H. Eliensi, R. Lincolniensi, et R. Herefordiensi, episcopis, H. de Bohun, comite Essex, et Hereford., Rogero le Bigod, comite Norfolc, H. de Ver, comite Oxon., W. de Cantilupo, lohanne filio Galfridi, Hereberto filio Mathei, B. de Cryoyl, Roberto de Muscegros, Dragone de Barentin, Galfrido de Cruz et aliis. Actum apud Westmonasterium xvi die Octobria anno &c., xxv. [1241]. [Charter Roll, 26 Henry III, m. 2 d.] magiuites of Cheshire in 1309 in a case in which the king had sent two outside justices into Cheshire to deal with a charge of burglary, theft, &c., made against Ric. de Fouleshurst by the abbot of Combermere. The men of Cheshire objected to the matter being dealt with by these justices, instead of by the local justiciar. A day was given coram Bege to argue the matter; but for some reason the Cheshire men failed to appear, and the case was ordered to proceed.