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181. Thomas de Stocton was lodging in the house of Gilbert [Makeheyte]lcarpenter and brought with him there Dulcia de Gravesend, a prostitute. Because of this, a quarrel broke out between Thomas and Gilbert and Thomas hit Gilbert on the neck with an axe, so that he died forthwith. He at once fled and is suspected, so let him be exacted and outlawed according to the custom of the City. Chattels *18d. for which the sheriffs are to answer. He was [not] in frankpledge, but was harboured in the aldermanry of John de Gisors Wintry ward] outside frankpledge, so the aldermanry is in *mercy.
Henry de Kensyngton and Gilbert's widow Maud were attached for the death because they were in the house at the time, but they do not come and are not suspected. Henry was attached by Roger le Mareschal1,2 Geoffrey de Bow (de Arcubus) and William de Holebourn `pessoner', Maud by Walter le Engleys and Roger le Mareschall. So they are in *mercy. Dulcia has absconded for the death and is not suspected, so let her return if she wishes. All the neighbours come and are not suspected. [cf. 628, 640]
Nota [unnumbered]. Defectus franci plegii.
1. Supplied from 640.
2. Perhaps an error; see Maud's sureties. |