Ioannes Kontostephanos, Barlaam the hegoumenos and six other monks from Lavra went to the contested property. The others were Arsenios, Bartholomaios the cobbler, Dositheos the oikonomos of the monastery's metochion in Thessalonike, Germanos, Kandidos the orphanotrophos and Kyriakos the ekklesiarches. Pankratios Anemas, who held the disputed paroikoi in pronoia, asserted that they had established their dwellings on the contested estate of Lavra (at Archontochorion) much earlier, at the time when the proasteion was held in pronoia by the Loukitai. The seven Lavra monks did not deny this, but explained to Kontostephanos that Lavra had granted Archontochorion in pronoia to the three original stratiotai, Romanos Andreas Rentinos, Theotimos Loukites and Leon Loukites on condition that their paroikoi would only cultivate it and not dwell on it. They demanded the return of the property to Lavra because the condition on which it was granted had not been respected and because the three original holders of the pronoia had died in the meantime. They presented to Kontostephanos the document of Xiphilinos on the earlier dispute between Lavra and the three pronoia-holders which had been settled by Konstantinos Doukas, the doux and praktor of Boleron, Strymon and Thessalonike. They argued that, since Archontochorion had been granted to the Loukitai only and not to their successors (like Pankratios), and the clause on the paroikoi had been broken, it should now be returned to Lavra. Kontostephanos also received the periorismos of Archontochorion made earlier by Konstantinos, the vestarches and logariastes