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Wigan on Monday in every week, and two fairs there for six days, namely, on the Vigil, the day, and the morrow, of the Ascension of our Lord, and on the Vigil, the day, and the morrow of All Saints, unless that market and fair should be to the injury of neighbouring markets and fairs. Wherefore he claims by these charters to have a market and fair in the aforesaid vill, and emends of bread and beer on the days of the market and fairs as a liberty appurtenant and annexed to the said market and fair, &c., and so in like manner on every day throughout the whole year. And in like manner he claims for himself and his men of that vill that they should be free of suit to County or Wapentake, and that he should have a free borough with infangenthef and utfangenthef, and to make attachments, which pertain to the aforesaid liberties, by his bailiffs in the same vill; but attachments for pleas of the crown, and the execution of briefs and precepts determinable by the King's Justices, or the county, are made by the King's bailiff. Subsequently the aforesaid Master (Adam) said that he did not claim Utfangenthef although it was contained in his charter. William Inge, who prosecuted on behalf of the crown, pleaded that he (Master Adam) had arrogated to himself the emends of assize of bread and beer on the authority of the aforesaid charter for a market and fair, whereas these liberties are not to be inferred from the said charter. He also says that the same Master Adam took emends of assize of bread and beer in the said vill on every day in the year, and that he exercises the liberty of infangenthef and utfangenthef otherwise than he ought to do. He also says that the same Master Adam and his bailiffs of the said vill had before them, on pleas of sacrabord, felons accused of felonies committed beyond their jurisdiction, and those felons had put themselves upon a jury of their country. He had tried that matter by men of the aforesaid town, whereby some had been improperly condemned, and some had been freely dismissed. Master Adam says that he does not claim to determine