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the name of all lands and tenements which formerly belonged
to William Galoyn the faihcr of Matilda, within the fee of
Kyngesley, and he produced the deed which was dated from
Kyngesley on the Sunday after the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula,
1 Ric. II (1377).
The plaintiff denied the deed was the act of Matilda, and
appealed to the jury and to the witnesses of it who were john
Gahyn, Richard de Thornbury, Adam de Homresley (Ham-
mersley), ]ohn Bate, and Simon the Clerk.
The Sheriff was therefore ordered to summon a jury and
the witnesses for the Quindene of Easter. M. 484.
Copgrave, Chronicle of England
A.1>. 1388.-
Before the murder of Richard II his adherents and sup-
porters were seized and imprisoned.
“ At the Parliament these men were condemned to various
prisons (among numerous others) yon Golopyn knyt of the
Kingis house."
Salt Arc. Soc., vol. xv, p. 77.
Dc Banco
Mic., 20 Ric. II (1396).
Ralph Galpyn was attached at the suit of Thomas Beke,
Chivaler, for waste and destruction in houses, gardens, etc.,
which Thomas had demised to him for a term of years, and
Thomas stated that on the Monday before the Feast of St.
Michael, 44 Edw. III, 1770 he had demised to the said Ralph
at Dilrun (Dilhorn) two messuages, two carucates of land, and
ten acres of wood in Dilrun and Chedele to be held by him
for the following six years, and that Ralph had wasted the
tenements by digging and selling marl and clay from two acres
of the value of 40s. and by pulling down a hall and selling the
timber for ten marks and by pulling down two chambers each
worth A40, a kitchen and a stable each worth 40:., and by
cutting down and selling from the woods forty oaks each worth
41., sixty ash trees each worth gs., and by cutting down in the
gardens one hundred cornules each worth Sd., twenty pear
trees each worth 41., and twenty apple trees each worth 6s.,
and for which he claimed £2OO as damages.