Note 45 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

Baderun of Monmouth has heard the writ read out in the county court;45 Earl Patrick also has heard the writ read out.46 William fitz Siward derives from the sheriff, he tells us, his knowledge of the writ:47 even the bishop of Chester has received his instructions from the sheriff.48 But more especially do I rely upon the return of the Archbishop of York because he recites the tenor of the writ in terms which can leave no doubt that it was addressed, through the sheriff, to the whole shire collectively.49 If the Archbishop of York did not receive a special writ, we may fairly infer that no other tenant can have done so.