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De anno septimodecimo.
84. Eodem anno [Simone fille Marie existente camerario et vicecomite, et Rogero [142 Blund socio suo vicecomite accidit primo die Lune Quadragesime quod Stephanus Tulbuche verberavit Aliciam uxorem Galfridi de Sancto Albano ita quod fecit aborsum. Et predictus Galfridus vir eius invenit plegios prosequendi versus ipsum Stephanum, scilicet Willelmum de Escambio avener et Martinum de Sancto Paulo cissorem qui mortui sunt et non venit. Ideo in misericordia. ,Post venit. Et quia uxor sua vivit adhuc et non prosequitur istud, et preterea vir suus Galfridus nichil dicit in appello suo per quod possit ponere ipsum ad legem per appellum suum, ideo consideratum est quod appellum non iaceat et sit in misericordia pro falso appello suo. Custodiatur. Et pro pace domini regis observanda inquiritur de facto per maiorem et cives si predictus Stephanus ita verberavit eam quod fecit aborsum vel non. Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum et in fide qua tenentur domino regi, quod predictus Stephanus verberavit illam et male tractavit, set ob hoc non fecit aborsum. Ideo consideratum est quod sit in misericordia et custodiatur et committatur gaole. Post venit Stephanus et finem fecit per dimidiam marcam per plegium Petri de Basingge. Misericordia Galfridi le Avener perdonatur quia pauper.
1. Simon filius in original.
2. filio in original: see sheriffs' list in 5 where John, son of Roger le Blund answers for his deceased father.
Of the seventeenth year [Mich. 1233—Mich. 1234].
In the same year, Simon fitz Mary being chamberlain and sheriff, and Roger le Blund his fellow-sheriff, on the first Monday in Lent [13 March 1234] Stephen Tulbuche beat Alice, wife of Geoffrey of St. Albans so that she miscarried. Geoffrey, her husband, found pledges to prosecute the same Stephen viz. William of the Change, avener, and Martin of St. Paul's, tailor, who have died, and now he does not come, and is therefore in mercy. Afterwards he comes. And because his wife is still living and takes no action, and moreover Geoffrey her husband says nothing in his appeal by reason of which he (Stephen) could be made to wage his law, it is adjudged that the appeal does not lie, and he (Geoffrey) is to be in mercy for a false appeal. Let him be taken into custody; and for the safeguarding of the king's peace, enquiry is to be made of the mayor and citizens concerning the deed; whether Stephen so beat her that she miscarried or not. They say upon their oath and in the faith in which they are bound to the king, that Stephen did beat and ill-treat her, but that it was not from that cause that she miscarried. Therefore it is adjudged that she be in mercy, and committed to custody and imprisoned. Afterwards Stephen came and made fine in mark, with Peter of Basing as surety. The amercement of Geoffrey le Avener [of St. Albans] is pardoned because he is poor. |