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240. Intrusio. Radulfus la Justice et Agnes uxor eius querunturi de Johanne Clerico le chapeler, quod idem Johannes iniuste et contra pacem domini regis intrusit se in quoddam mesuagium ipsius Agnetis in Estchep, et [ipsam]2 Agnetem inde eiecit, unde dicunt quod deteriorati sunt et dampna habent ad valenciam NI m. etc. Et producunt sectam etc. Et Johannes venit et defendit vim et iniuriam et totum etc. et dicit quod non intrusit se in predictum mesuagium sicut ipsi dicunt, set habuit ingressum in predictum mesuagium per priorissam Sancte Marie de Clerckenwelle quam vocat inde ad warrantum qui3 venit et ei warrantizavit et dicit quod predicti Radulfus et Agnes nichil clamare poterunt in predicto mesuagio quia dicit quod predictum mesuagium est de feodo suo, et quod ipsa dedit predictum mesuagium per cartam cuidam Rogero le Cordwaner et Avicie uxori sue. Ita quod post mortem ipsius Rogeri venit predicta Avicia apud Clerkenewelle et in pleno conventu reddidit eis cartam predictam et mesuagium et eis quietum4 clamavit totum jus et clamium quod habuit in predicto mesuagio. Ita quod eadem priorissa et conventus predietam resignacionem ceperunt de predicto mesuagio et predictum Johannem inde feoffaverunt. Radulfus et Agnes dicunt quod verum est quod ipsa priorissa et conventus feoffaverunt predictum Rogerum et Aviciam set dicunt quod post mortem ipsius Rogeri venit predicta Avicia in ligia potestate et viduitate sua dedit predictum mesuagium in maritagium cum predicta Agnete cuidam Ricardo de Abeville primo viro suo qui inde fuerunt in pacifica seisina per magnum tempus donec idem Johannes ipsos inde eiecit. Et quod eadem Agnes talem habuit seisinam et prius fuit feoffata quam idem Johannes ponit se super veredictum visneti et Johannes similiter. Et ideo dictum est Roberto Hardel eiusdem visneti aldermanno5 quod iam faciat venire in predicto loco xij ad inquisicionem illam faciendam, ubi statim et eodem die facta fuit inquisicio per xij aldermannos qui venerunt coram justiciariis apud ecclesiam Sancte Marie prope predictum mesuagium et super saciramentum suum et in fide qua tenentur domino regi dixerunt quod predicta Avicia post mortem vini sui confecit predictis Ricardo et Agneti cartam suam de predicto mesuagio, set postea venit predicta Avicia ad predictam priorissam et conventum et in presentia eorum se dimisit de predicto mesuagio omnino et illud eis reddidit. Ita quod eadem priorissa et conventus predictum Johannem de predicto mesuagio feoffaverunt et ipsum inde in plenariam et [separatani]6 seisinam posuerunt. Et ideo consideratum est quod predictus Johannes teneat in pace. Et Radulfus et Agnes in misericordia. Loguela de ista intrusione nunquam fuit in hustengo et tamen terminatum est coram justiciariis unde manifeste patet7 quod hoc quod major et cives superius dixerunt de intrusione locum non tenet, set sciendum quod predictus Johannes sponte intravit in responsionem predicte intrusionis.
1. Copied in Liber Ordinationum, ff. 223d-4.
2. ipsarum in original.
3. Liber Ordinationum reads que.
4. Supplied from Liber Ordinationum.
5. Bridge Ward according to Beaven, i, 372.
6. seperatem in original.
7. Liber Ordinationum has the following marginal gloss: Nota quod xij aldermanni fuerunt in inquisicione de intrusione.
Intrusion. Ralph la Justice and Agnes his wife complain that John Clerk, the capper, unjustly and against the king's peace, intruded into a messuage belonging to Agnes in Eastcheap, and ejected her, to their damage 5 marks etc. They produce witnesses etc. John comes and denies the force and injury and all etc., and says that he did not intrude himself into the messuage as the plaintiffs allege, but had entry through the prioress of St. Mary Clerkenwell, whom he vouches to warranty. The prioress comes and warrants him, and says that Ralph and Agnes can claim nothing in the messuage in question because it belongs to her fee, and she gave it by charter to one Roger le Cordwaner and Avice his wife. After Roger's death Avice came to Clerkenwell, and in the presence of the whole convent returned to them the charter and the messuage, and quit-claimed to them all the right and claim which she had in the said messuage. The prioress and convent accepted the resignation of the messuage and enfeoffed the above-named John therewith. Ralph and Agnes say that it is true that the prioress hand convent enfeoffed Roger and Avice, but that after Roger's death, Avice in her lawful power and widowhood, gave the messuage in marriage with the above named Agnes to one Richard de Abbeville, her first husband, and they remained in peaceful possession for a long while until John ejected them; and that Agnes had such seisin and was enfeoffed before John they put themselves upon the verdict of the venue. John does likewise. Therefore Robert Hardel, alderman of the venue, is ordered to cause twelve to appear in that place to hold an inquest; and forthwith, that same day, an inquest was held by twelve aldermen, who appeared before the justices in the church of St. Mary [ ? at Hill] nearby, and said upon their oath and in the faith in which they are bound to the king that Avice, after her husband's death, made out a charter concerning the messuage in dispute to Richard and Agnes, but afterwards came to the prioress and convent, and in their presence surrendered the messuage completely, and returned it to them; whereupon they enfeoffed John therewith and put him in full and separate possession. Therefore it is adjudged that John is to hold it in peace. Ralph and Agnes are in mercy. There was never any discussion concerning this intrusion in the husting, yet it was terminated before the justices. Thus it is manifest that what the mayor and citizens said above on the subject does not hold; but be it known that John appeared to answer to the plea of intrusion of his own volition. |