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subject to Tallage and to suit at court of the King at Caistor, which suit had been withdrawn to the Kings loss 24 years.
The Jury of Yarborough Wapentake on a similar occasion, had, six years previously asserted that the aforesaid William de Veer had for 15 years (they know not by what warrant) withheld suit at Castor, to the loss of 12d per annum to the sokemen of that place; and that he had moreover made a channel in Caistor Marsh whereby he had diverted the course of the water and caused a loss of 6d per annum into the soke, according to the sokemen's opinion, but according to the jurymen's he had done no injury by diverting the water.
William de Ver of Ver stated in his defence that his father Simon whose heir he was, had held that half an oxgang, without any suit or tax, but for an annual rent of 4d; and that 2 and half acres were held without either rent or suit for the same. The jury however insisted that Simon himself had withheld due service, 4d per annum for the half oxgang, as well as 2d for the 2 and half acres, and that he had owed suit at the court of Castor for the whole. Finally that the King should recover seizing of these and that thenceforth the land was to be taxable as other lands were but no fine was to be exacted as the withdrawal was no act of Williams but his fathers.
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