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[001] place, or elsewhere, where you may better and more easily come together, and
[002] having taken an oath before the sheriff, such a person, to lawfully, discreetly, and
[003] rightfully extend and cause to be valued all the lands and tenements of the aforesaid
[004] honour, including those tenements which the aforesaid A. has alienated as well
[005] as others, that is, in demesnes, villeinages, etc. (as above). And make known that
[006] extent and valuation to our justices, such persons, on such a day at such a place.
[007] We have also ordered our sheriff, such a one, to meet with you on the aforesaid
[008] day and place to take your oath, and to cause to come before you all those of the
[009] aforesaid honour, and others of his county whom he considers [it expedient] to
[010] call, by whose oath you may be aided in making that extent and valuation. And
[011] inform our justices on the aforesaid day how many and which men the said A. of N.
[012] has enfeoffed, and of what tenements, and let the value and price of those tenements
[013] be separately written down ¹([or ‘inform them of] the lands and tenements the
[014] aforesaid [A. of N.] has given to others in fee, which are to be valued and extended
[015] separately and their values separately written down’).² And if all of you are not able
[016] to be present, let so many of you at least be present in order to carry out the aforesaid.
[017] In testimony whereof we send you these letters patent. Witness etc.’ There is another
[018] writ of the same sort, where the [original] partition is challenged as improperly made
[019] and justices are appointed because of the prejudice of the extenders.

Writ in another form but of the same kind, where partition was improperly made by others.

[021] ³‘The king to his beloved and faithful men, such persons, greeting. Know that at
[022] the petition of our beloved and faithful A. and B. we have appointed you⁴
[023] justices to make an extent and partition between the aforesaid A. and such persons,
[024] the daughters and heirs of C., who are in the wardship of the said B., of all the
[025] lands and tenements that belonged to D. of N. in such a county, concerning which
[026] the said A. and B. have complained that the partition earlier made thereof in
[027] accordance with out precept was not made as carefully as it ought to have been.
[028] Therefore we order you, joining with yourselves our sheriff [of Cumberland], to whom
[029] we have sent our command that he join with you in making that partition, to go as
[030] speedily as you can to all the lands and tenements that belonged to the aforesaid D.
[031] in the aforesaid county, and having called together before you twelve or six lawful
[032] men from each vill, according as

Notes

1-2. ‘terris et tenementis ... imbreviantur,’ from 210, lines 18-20; om: ‘exceptis’

3. C.R.R., xii, no. 866 (Mich. 9/10): ‘Henricus Dei gracia etc. vicecomiti Cumb’ et aliis salutem. Sciatis quod nos ad peticionem dilectorum et fidelium nostrorum W. de Fortibus comitis Albemarl’ et Thome de Muleton constituimus vos justiciarios ad faciendum partitionem inter predictum comitem et filias Ricardi de Lucy, que sunt in custodia predicti Thome, de omnibus terris et tenementis que fuerunt Alicie de Rumely in comitatu Cumberland’ unde predicti comes et Thomas nobis questi sunt quod partitio prius inde facta per preceptum nostrum facta fuit minus rationabiliter quam deberet. Et. ideo vobis mandamus...’; Letters designating the parties altered. This should follow the writ beginning on 212; for the family relationships: C.R.R., xi, no. 1223

4. Om: ‘nostros,’ as roll