155. In the same year,' the same being chamberlain and Edward le Blund and Peter Aungers being sheriffs; his son John answers for Edward and no one answers for Peter; on Wednesday after Michaelmas [1 Oct. 1264] John le Suur was driving two pigs on a rope when he was dragged into a ditch and was drowned. Value of the pigs 2s. 8d. for which the sheriffs are to answer. Because the wards of Stephen Bukerel and John Blakeney2 [Cripplegate and Aldersgate wards] falsely valued the deodand before the chamberlain and sheriffs, *to judgment on them. The neighbours have died. John, to whom the pigs belonged, was attached for the death but does not come and is not suspected. He was attached by William de Gloucester and Robert de St. Giles butcher. So they are in *mercy. [cf. 626]
1. Viz. 49 Henry III (cf. 156).
2. Recte Blakethorn.