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83. Eodem anno etc. accidit in octabis Sancte Trinitatis quod quidam Rogerus de Rysingges clericus et Moyses serviens eius venerunt ad domum Gilberti Marescalli et idem Rogerus percussit Matilldem uxorem ipsius Gilberti quodam martello inter humeros et predictus Moyses earn helta gladii sui in facie sua. Ita quod fregit plures dentes suos. Ita quod languebat usque ad diem Mercurii proxima ante festum Sancte Marie Magdalene et tunc obiit. Et predictus Marescallus invenit plegios prosequendi mortem suam illam et venit. Et justiciarii habent ipsum suspectum de morte illa et querunt ab eo qualiter ipse vult purgare suspicionem illam. Dicit quod ponit se super veredictum maioris et civium Londoniarum et committitur vicecomitibus. Postea veniunt major et cives et dicunt super sacramentum suum et in fide qua tenentur domino regi quod predictus Gilbertus sepius verberavit predictam Matildem uxorem suam set non verberavit eam tunc, unde dicunt quod non est culpabilis de morte illa. Ideo inde quietus. Dicunt etiam quod predictus Rogerus non percussit predictam Matilldem nec aliquod malum ei fecit, set dicunt quod revera predictus Moyses percussit earn quodam martello et male illam tractavit et verberavit. Ita quod, si de aliqua batura obiit, obiit de batura illa, et potius credunt quod obiit de batura illa quam non. Et ideo exigatur et utlagetur secundum formam quam justiciarii providebunt. Et Rogerus sit inde quietus imperpetuum. Et Gilbertus committitur gaole pro falso appello. Post venit Gilbertus et finem fecit per dimidiam marcam. Plegius Johannes Vie! le Joeune.
In the same year, etc., on the octave of Trinity Sunday [5 June 1233], Roger de Rysingges, clerk, and Moses his servant came to the house of Gilbert the Marshal, and Roger struck Maud, Gilbert's wife, with a hammer between the sho'ulders, and Moses struck her in the face with the hilt of his sword, breaking many of her teeth. She lingered until Wednesday before the feast of St. Mary Magdalen [20 July] and then died. The aforesaid Marshal found pledges to prosecute for her death and now comes. The justices hold him suspect of the death, and ask him how he wishes to clear himself of the suspicion. He says that he puts himself upon the verdict of the mayor and citizens of London, and is committed to the custody of the sheriffs. Afterwards the mayor and citizens Corne and say, upon their oath and in the faith in which they are bound to the king, that the aforesaid Gilbert often beat Maud his wife, but he did not beat her on that occasion, wherefore they say that he is not guilty of the death. Therefore he is quit. They say further, that Roger did not strike Maud nor cause her any other harm, but that Moses did indeed strike her with a hammer and ill-treat and beat her, and therefore, if she died of any beating, it was of that beating that she died, and they are more inclined than not to believe that she died of that beating. Therefore let [Moses] be put in exigent and outlawed according to the form which the justices will provide; and Roger is to be quit in perpetuity. Gilbert is committed to gaol for a false appeal. Afterwards he came and made fine in I- mark. Surety, John Viel, junior. |