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returnable before the Justices at Lancaster at the sessions next to be held there or elsewhere within the county of Lancaster, to show his title and have his champion ready. And that the above-named Thomas, Ralph, Henry, William and James, should appear in person or by their sufficient attornies; and that the said Lawrence de Standish should then declare his right upon the same writ to the said advowson or any part thereof, and cease all debate and heaviness upon any pretence. And I, the said Alice, ordain and award that the said Sir Ralph Langton and Alice his wife shall release by fine to the said bishop, Henry, William and James, at the cost of the said Lawrence de Standish, all the lands, tenements, &c., in dispute in the town of Wigan, &c. And the said Ralph shall let or make James Langton, his brother, and George, brother of James, betwixt this and the feast of . . . next ensuing, release to the said bishop, William, and Henry, all their rights, &c., in the said lands. And that within six months after, the said bishop, &c., shall enfeoff William, Robert, and James de Standish, William the son of John Gerard, James de Heton, John de Chesenhall, Dakin de Standish, John and Thurstan de Standish, Richard de Molyneux, &c., upon condition that they shall enfeoff by deed the said Sir Ralph de Langton and his heirs for ever in the same lands and tenements, &c. And within a quarter of a year after the said Sir Ralph is so enfeoffed in the said lands, &c., he shall grant by his deed indented to the said Lawrence de Standish and his heirs an annual rent charge of forty shillings, to be taken out of the rents and profits of the said lands, payable by William de Langton, parson of the church of Wigan, at the terms of Michaelmas and Christmas. And that in the said deed a clause or covenant shall be inserted, that if the said Lawrence de Standish, his heirs or assigns, shall make any claim to any right or title in the said advowson or any part thereof in any court of Record, spiritual or temporal, or at any time present any clerk to the said church, or disturb the said Sir Ralph or his heirs in the presentation of any clerk to the said church, or shall disturb any clerk presented by the said Sir Ralph, his heirs or assigns, to be instituted or inducted in the said church, that then the said rent to cease and be determined for ever. With another clause or covenant in the said indenture that the said Sir Ralph may have power to enfeoff the said Lawrence de Standish in other lands in the county of Lancaster to the value of the above sum of forty shillings per annum in place of the said lands, &c.,