STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 23 called Sothewode and destroying his growing corn with oxen, cows, and horses, to the value of ,£2O and for which he claimed {60 as damages. Some of the defendants denied the trespass, . and Robert son of William Lonsing, for himself and others, stated that the place called Sothewode was his common pasture, appurtenant to his tenement, and because the said Robert de Dutton had put up fences and sown his common pasture he and the others named had pulled them down, as was lawful, and he appealed to a jury which is to be summoned for three weeks from Easter. M. 60. I5 Edw. II (Am. 1321). (VVilliam Galpyn of Cheadle.) Richard son of Richard de Clynt of Chedle, Richard de Lychwode, William Gczézbyn of Chedle, William son of Thomas de Thene and five others were attached to answer the plea of the Abbot of Crokesdene that they had illegally taken and impounded the cattle of his plough at Doggechedle on the Monday before the Feast of St. john the Baptist 1 5 Edw. II (1321). M. 49 llama. The defendants, with the exception of the two first named, denied the trespass altogether and the said Richard and Richard stated that the King had sent his writ to Ralph de Grendon to supply from each vill of the county a man on foot to be armed and maintained by the vill for 4.0 days, and to be sent to New- castle-upon-Tyne for the King’s war and in pursuance of this mandate the said Ralph had caused all the men of the County between two ages named, to come before hin1 at Stafford on the Wednesday in the week of Pentecost 1 5 Edw. II in order to select a man from each vill, and among these he had selected from the vill of Chedle, one named john de Bannebury and had assigned Richard the son of Richard, and Richard de Lychwode to levy the cost of the arms and stipend of the said john from the said vill, and for this purpose the said Abbot for the tene- ments he held in Doggechedle had been assessed at I 5s. 6d. and refused to pay the money, in consequence of which they had distrained him, as stated, because they could not find any- thing else on which a distress could be levied, and they appealed to a jury, which is to be summoned for the morrow of St. Martin. M. 49 dorm. 2