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Church, for the time being, and no others; and that the same bailiffs shall be able, within the borough aforesaid and the liberty thereof, to levy the fines and amercements, made and adjudged there before them, to the aforesaid John, and his successors aforesaid; and also to make execution of all things recovered or recognized before them, and of the damages before them adjudged, within the said borough and liberty (de omnibus coram eis recuperatis sive recognitis et de dampnis coram eis adjudicatis executiones facere possint infra prædictum burgum et libertatem) without the let or hindrance of anyone whomsoever. And the burgesses of that borough shall not be convicted by persons outside the borough (forifisecos), but only by their fellow burgesses, concerning pleas arising within the aforesaid borough, or concerning any things there done or perpetrated, unless those pleas shall affect us or our heirs, or the parson of the said church, or the community of the borough aforesaid. Moreover, for the better and more speedy restraint of the malice of any evil doers that may commit offences within the said borough or the liberty thereof, we have granted, for us and our heirs, and by this our charter have confirmed, to the aforesaid John, and his successors aforesaid, that they, by their stewards or bailiffs, and others by them to this to be deputed, may have powers of inquiring, as often as need shall be, concerning all excesses, oppressions, extortions, conspiracies, confederacies, and other transgressions and grievances whatsoever within the same borough and liberty perpetrated and arising, by virtue of their office, and to hear and determine the same, as well at the suit of the party as otherwise, and therein to make executions according to the law and customs of our kingdom; and when it shall happen that any persons outside the borough, in cases of this sort, are impeached or indicted by presentments, indictments, or inquisitions, before the sheriffs, justices, or other officials whomsoever, of us or our heirs, concerning malefactions of this sort perpetrated within the said borough or liberty, that they may, without any sort of difficulty immediately after such malefactors of this sort shall have been taken out of the said borough