DOC 16 -- Select English Writs

[1] The King to the sheriff greeting. Command [person X] that justly and without delay he render to [person A] one messuage with the appurtenances in Trumpington which he claims to be his right and inheritance, and to hold of us in chief and whereof he complains that the aforesaid [person X] unjustly deforceth him. And unless he will do this, and (if) the aforesaid [person A] shall give you security to prosecute his claim, then summon by good summoners the aforesaid [person X] that he be before our justices at Westminster [on such a day] to show wherefore he hath not done it. And have there the summoners and this writ.
 

[2] The King to [person K] greeting. We command you that without delay you do full right to [person A] of one messuage with the appurtenances in Trumpington which he claims to hold of you by free service of [so much] per annum for all service, of which [person X] deforceth him. And unless you will do this, let the sheriff of Cambridge do it that we may hear no more clamour thereupon for want of right.

[3] The King to the sheriff greeting. [person A] hath complained unto us that [person X] unjustly and without judgment hath disseised him [deprived him of possession] of his freehold in Trumpington after the last return of our lord the king from Brittany into England. And therefore we command you that, if the [person A] shall make you secure to prosecute his claim, then cause that tenement to be reseised and the chattels [material goods] which were taken in it and the same tenement with the chattels to be in peace until the first assize when our justices shall come into those parts. And in the mean time you shall cause twelve free and lawful men of that venue to view that tenement and their names to be put into the writ. And summon them by good summoners that they be before the justices at the assize, ready to make recognizance thereupon. And put by safe pledges the aforesaid [person X] or, if he shall not be found, his bailiff, that he be then there to hear that recognizance. And have there the (names of the) summoners, the pledges, and this writ.
 

[Source: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html --  F. W. Maitland: Equity also, The forms of action at common law: two courses of lectures, Edited by A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910).  Scanned by Jerome S. Arkenberg, Cal. State Fullerton. The text has been modernized by Prof. Arkenberg.]