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DISPUTED RIGHTS. 83 that whereas Reginald de Mortayn, formerly Earl of Cornwall, acquired from a certain prior of Lanceueton, a predecessor of the present prior, some liberties which the same prior and the canons of the Church of St. Stephen then had at Lanceueton, that is to say, the right to fix the assize of bread and ale made in the town of Lanceueton, and gave to the same prior and canons, for having the said liberties, 65s. iod., to be received of his burgesses of Dunheved from a certain farm, and assigned to the same bur- gesses and their successors therefor 65s. iod., to be paid to the said prior and convent yearly, which things they have always, from the said time until now, in every year fully satisfied" to the said prior and convent, yet the said prior and convent have now, since the last circuit of the Judges here, appropriated to themselves to fix the assize of bread and ale in the town of Lanceueton, and claim those things contrary to their agreement with the aforesaid Earl Reginald, and have, notwithstanding, received the aforesaid 65s. iod., from the said burgesses, to the damage of the Lord the King and his burgesses &c. Therefore it is commanded that the Sheriff shall cause the aforesaid prior, &c, to come : Afterwards comes the said prior, and says that the Lord the King is seized of a moiety of the profit arising from the aforesaid takings [assize &c.J, and that he claims the other moiety ; and, concerning that moiety, he says that his predecessors had that liberty before the time of the aforesaid Earl Reginald, the same liberty ever since continuing : For, he says that, in the time of the aforesaid Earl Reginald, a certain R, prior of Lanceueton, his predecessor, lawfully justified before the aforesaid Earl all the liberties which his predecessors theretofore had, namely, sok and sak, tol and thym, and infangthef, with all the other liberties, and that he and his men were acquitted of suits of shire and hundred, and of pleas and plaints, and of castle-guards, and of all aids and secular service, (except only the Sunday market which they theretofore had, which market the Earl Moreton, a predecessor of the afore- said Earl, transferred from the town of Lanceuton to the borough of Dunheved, for which market the said Earl assigned to the said prior and convent, and their successors, twenty shillings yearly, to be received from the prepositure of the Castle of Dunheved.) He says, also, that the said Earl Reginald gave to the said prior and convent, for a certain tower belonging to them which he had caused to be destroyed, xls., in pure and perpetual alms, to g 2