Order concerning land of Alice de Wakefield seized by rebels at Scarborough
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To the bailiffs of Scarborough. Order to put Alice de Wakefeld, sister of Henry bishop of Worcester, in full possession of certain lands and rents in that town as before the insurrection, maintaining and defending her therein, and on the king's behalf telling any who claim right or title to the same to sue according to law after she has obtained possession, if they shall think fit; as by her complaint the king has learned that great number of evildoers caused and procured her to be thrust out of the same, whereof she was in peaceable possession until disseised by unlawful violence and insurrection of the people of the town contrary to their allegiance, the premises being yet unlawfully occupied by those who so disseised her.
