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45. Eodem anno eisdem camerario çt vicecomitibus existentibus in crastino Sancti Luce Ewangeliste accidit quod Amisius diaconus ecclesie Sancti Petri de Cornhulle inventus fuit occisus in hostio Martini presbyteri in soka de Cornhulle. Walkelinus vicarius Sancti Pauli Londoniarum eum occidit cum quodam anelacio et fugit et Martinus, Johannes et Willelmus capellani ecclesie Sancti Petri et Robertus clericus eiusdem ecclesie qui fuerunt in
domo ante cuius hostium inventus fuit occisus, capti fuerunt pro suspicione illius mortis, et liberati fuerunt magistro Johanni de Ponte, offtciali archidiaconi Londoniensis per predictos camerarium, vicecomites et Jacobum Blundum, Johannem de Sao, Bartholomeum de Cornhulle et Walterum de Insula tunc a-ldermannosi sine waranto. Ideo ad iudicium2 de eis. Et alii attachiati pro morte illa non veniunt quia obierunt. Ideo nichil. Quid autem faciendum sit de predicto Walkelino et utrum predicti capellani et clericus quieti sint necne de morte illa; dicunt maior et tota civitas quod neminem malecredunt de morte illa neque de facto neque de consensu nisi predictum Walkelinum. Ideo consideratum est3 quod omnes alii sint quieti de predicta morte, et quid sit faciendum de predicto Walkelino secundum consuetudinem et legem Civitatis, dicent. Et quia camerarius et vicecomites non fecerunt sufficientem inquisicionem de morte illa nec de catallis predicti Walkelini, ideo ad iudicium de eis. Postea veniunt major et cives et dicunt quod [debetPexigi ad tres hustengos et postea per preceptum domini regis debet utlagari ad folkemotum apud Sanctum Paulum. Et quia hustengus tenetur de quindena ad quindenam et tempus exigendi et utlagandi brevissimum est5 ut videtur justiciariis, ideo loquendum qualiter possit hoc emendari.6 Nulla habuit catalla. Judicium: exigatur et utlagetur secundum formam quam justiciarii providebunt.7
1. Beaven, i, 371 assigns James Blund to Broad Street Ward and Walter de Lisle to Bishopsgate Ward and lists John de Solio without a ward; Bartholomew of Comhill is not mentioned.
2. Two marginal notes: ad iudiciumlquidam liberati fuerunt officiali sine waranto.
3. Supplied from Liber Albus, i, 85.
4. debent in original. Cf. Liber Albus, i, 86 n. 1.
5. Margin: Nota—de brevitate temporis pro exigendis faciendis et qualiter homines exigentur, also in Liber Ordinationum and Liber Albus (printed as the heading of Cap. xi, Liber Albus, i, 85). However, the table of contents reads: De quodam occiso invento in ostio cuiusdam presbyteri in soca de Cornhulle.
6. Margin: Loquendum exig' et utlag'.
7. The entry is shorter in Liber Ordinationum and shows two small errors, but reports the appointment of Henry fitz Aucher as chamberlain (4).
There follows the rest of the tenth year [Mich. 1226-Mich. 1227].
In the same year, the same being chamberlain and sheriffs, it happened on the morrow of the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist [19 Oct. 1226] that Amyas, deacon of the church of St. Peter Cornhill was found dead in the doorway of Martin the priest in the §oke of Cornhill. Walkelin, a vicar of St. Paul's, London, killed him with an anlace and fled, and Martin, John and William, chaplains of the church of St. Peter and Robert, clerk of the same church, who were in the house before the door of which he was found dead, were arrested on suspicion of the death, and delivered, without warrant, to master John of the Bridge, official of the archdeacon of London, by the aforesaid chamberlain and sheriffs and James Blund, John de Solio, Bartholomew of Cornhill, and Walter de Lisle, then aldermen. Therefore to judgment with them. And the others attached for the death do not come, because they have died. Therefore nothing. What then is to be done with the aforesaid Walkelin, and ought the chaplains and clerk to be quit of the death or not? The mayor and the whole City say that they do not suspect anyone of the death nor of the deed nor of consenting thereto save the aforesaid Walkelin. Therefore it is adjudged that all are to be quit, and they are to say what is to be done with Walkelin according to the custom and law of the City. And because the chamberlain and sheriffs did not make a sufficient enquiry into the death or into the chattels of the aforesaid Walkelin to judgment with them. Afterwards the mayor and citizens come and say that he ought to be put in exigent at three hustings, and then outlawed by precept of the king at the folkmoot at St. Paul's. And because the husting is held from fortnight to fortnight, and the time for exigent and outlawry seems to the justices to be very short, let there be a discussion, so that this may be amended. He (Walkelin) had no chattels. Judgment: let him be put in exigent and outlawed according to the form the justices shall provide. |