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Item, Adam de Welle in mercy for many defaults.
Item, The same Adam was attached to answer to the Lord King and to Matilda who was wife of William de Hardereshull on a plea that while the guardianship of the lands and heirs of John de Hardereshull, deceased, who held in chief of the King, was in his hands till the lawful age of the said heir, the same Adam held a market in Alford which William de Welle, whose brother he was and heir, had held the damage of the free market of the same heir in Saleby.
Thomas de Heseburne for the King and Matilda said that the heir and his ancestors had held this market in Saleby each week on a Wednesday and the men of the country and merchants came there to buy and sell. After the heir came into the King's wardship William de Welle held the market in Alford on Tuesday and Adam continued it, that it was only a league from Saleby and the men of the country and merchants came there and kept away from the market at Saleby to the damage, and they produce suit thereon.
Item, And Adam comes and denies force and injury and said that neither William son and heir of John Hardereshull nor John his father ever held a market at Saleby and he is prepared to prove this
Item, And Thomas de Asseburne for the King says that William de Hardereshull, grandfather of the aforesaid William, was seised of the market and held the manor of Saleby of the King in chief and died seised and they came into the King's hands, who dowered Matilda with the manor and the issues of the market, and the right of the market descended after William's death to Robert as son and heir, and from Robert to John as brother and heir, and from John to William who now is as son and heir, and the market is the right of the same heir and he is in seisin as of right and fee of the same market, and the aforesaid Matilda takes nothing but the issues of the market for life, and said he was satisfied that the action for holding the market at Alford was first raised in his time and not in that of his ancestors. And that if he shall be repelled by the action in this writ he will never seek by another writ this action to hold the market
He said further that Adam in the proceedings for this writ said that Matilda held the aforesaid market
And Thomas de Asseburne is ready to prove that the market held at Alford is to the damage of the free market held at Saleby and seeks judgement.
And Adam asked if he has anything further to say to support the market of Alford says nothing but says he is prepared to prove that the heir never held the market at Saleby and puts himself on the country and Thomas similarly
Therefore let a jury come before the King in the octaves of St Hilary
"pon' per vad' et c' Adam de Welle" to appear before us in the octaves of Michaelmas wherever we shall be in England to show why (as before re-wardship of the King) he held a certain market in Alford (as before re damage to the heir).
No contemporary endorsement
This document is loose in the album. It is not clear if it belongs to the group of strays from public records. With it is a translation on 4 sheets of paper and a letter from Tatham and Hardy wh. seems to refer to Cragg 4/.
A Note on Cragg 3/39-40, 42-51, ?52, ?62:
These documents of varied class and date seem from their nature to be stray from the public records of long standing. There is no clue to their provenance. Two letters from W.O. Massingberd to Captain Cragg about them are pasted in the album dated 1908 and 1910 respectively. One at least has a dealer's number and price written on the back in pencil. See Cragg. | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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