Check out the strip below.
Please note that they say they contracted Quintyn of Freeman Downs in the contract to retrieve the artifacts. They also informed the town folk that the contract also had a clause that held his titled successor to the contract. The only problem is Quintyn was Questor of Ridgedale not Freeman Downs!!! It also states on this strip that the land granted in the contract was parceled out after his death and eventually became the 7th village so Freeman Downs was not even a village at the time of the contract. Our Quintyn is the first Questor of Freeman Downs so he is not the successor of Quintyn of Ridgedale and the contract is not binding on him or the village.

But, hey I want to see him go because I like the story line.