ate note, intimating the serious consequences which will ensue
upon inattention or contumacy. The "Declaration," then, which had been
served upon old Jolter, was in the words, letters, and figures
following--that is to say:--

"IN THE KING'S BENCH.
"Michaelmas Term, the---- of King----.

"YORKSHIRE, to-wit--Richard Roe was attached to answer John Doe of
a plea wherefore the said Richard Roe, with force and arms, &c.,
entered into two messuages, two dwelling-houses, two cottages, two
stables, two out-houses, two yards, two gardens, two orchards,
twenty acres of land covered with water, twenty acres of arable
land, twenty acres of pasture land, and twenty acres of other land,
with the appurtenances, situated in _Yatton_, in the county of
York, which TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE, Esquire, had demised to the said
John Doe for a term which is not yet expired, and ejected him from
his said farm, and other wrongs to the said John Doe there did, to
the great damage of the said John Doe, and against the peace of our
Lord the King, &c.; and Thereupon the said John Doe, by OILY
GAMMON, his attorney, complains,--

"That whereas the said TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE, on the --th day of
August, in the year of our Lord 18--, at Yatton aforesaid, in the
county aforesaid, had demised the same tenements, with the
appurtenances, to the said John Doe, to have and to hold the same
to the said John Doe and his assigns thenceforth, for and during,
and unto the full end and term of twenty years thence next ensuing,
and fully to be completed and ended: By virtue of which said
demise, the said John Doe entered into the said tenements, with the
appurtenances, and became and was thereof possessed for the said
term, so to him thereof granted as aforesaid. And the said John Doe
being so thereof possessed, the said Richard Roe afterwards,
to-wit, on the day and year aforesaid, at the parish aforesaid, in
the county aforesaid, with force and arms, that is to say with
swords, staves, and knives, &c., entered into the said tenements,
with the appurtenances, which the said TITTLEBAT TITMOUSE had
demised to the said John Doe in manner and for the term aforesaid,
which is not yet expired, and ejected the said John Doe out of his
said farm; and other wrongs to the said John Doe then an