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by the officials of us or our heirs, deliver the presentments, indictments, and inquisitions of this sort, together with the malefactors so taken, to the officials of the said John and his successors, whensoever the officials of us and our heirs shall be thereunto required by the bailiffs of the same John and his successors, to be heard and determined in the court of the said John and his successors aforesaid within the borough aforesaid, so that the sheriffs, justices, or other officials of us or our heirs may not interfere with anything arising within the said borough or liberty thereof, except in the case of felonies; but that the said John and his successors, parsons of the church aforesaid, may have the cognizance of all and singular the above said as fully as we ourselves ought to have, together with the issues, forfeitures, amercements, fines, and redemptions in cases of this sort arising for ever. Moreover, we do will and grant for us and our heirs that the same John and his successors, parsons of the church aforesaid, by their officials aforesaid, may have the power of inquiring as often as need shall be concerning whatsoever felonies are perpetrated within the borough and liberty aforesaid; and of taking, and arresting, and confining there in the prison of the parson aforesaid, felons of this sort, to remain in the same prison until the first delivery of the gaol of us and our heirs at Lancaster, so that the indictment so made upon the felons aforesaid, together with the bodies of the same felons, may then be sent before the Justices of us and our heirs assigned to deliver the gaol aforesaid, and that before them justice may be done therein according to the law and custom of our kingdom. And, nevertheless, that the aforesaid burgesses may be able more freely and quietly to proceed in their merchandizes, we have granted for us and our heirs that the same burgesses, and their heirs and successors resident within the said borough and liberty, may for ever have this liberty, namely, that they or any of them may not be put on any assizes, juries, recognitions, or inquisitions whatsoever, to be taken out of the said borough, whether the juries and inquisitions of this sort shall be taken at the suit of