It appears from a case reported by Bracton under 1220, that William Marshal duly received the manor of Luton with his wife, but that it was escheated in 1216 in consequence of his opposition to King John. At the conclusion of peace Falk (whether willingly or not) restored it to William, who re-granted it to him (on lease or farm) by charter. The transaction becomes thus somewhat clearer.

In another place Bracton reports an action for novel disseisin by Will, de Stanes against Falk for 2 carucates and a mill in Luton, under the year 1224. Falk does not appear, “and Robert de Lexinton and his fellows, who were Justices at Dunstaple to take that assise and before whom it was summoned, recall (recordantur) that that assise stood over for hearing because” etc. ; this seems to confirm the suggestion that the Rolls had been lost; if they had been accessible, the phrasing would probably have been different. A note to this case by Bracton's editor, Prof. Maitland, shows that he had detected the Inquisition by Martin de Pateshull which is dealt with on pp. 51-60 above, but that he regarded it (erroneously, as we think) as the record of the original Eyre of Martin de Pateshull and his fellows.—[G.H.F.].