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25. On the feast of St. Urban [25 May 1253] an unknown beggar was found dead, apparently from hunger, in the ward of John de Blakethorn [Aldersgate ward] outside Aldresgate. Nicholas de Herlauwe and Roger de Celario, neighbours, do not come and are not suspected. Nicholas was attached by Philip de Wynton' and Alan de Pelham, Roger by Nicholas le Lorimer and John de Gatesdene. So they are in *mercy. No one else is suspected. Judgment: misadventure. Because John de Gisors chamberlain does not answer for the attachments of the neighbours and makes no mention of them in his roll, to judgment on him. Because the mayor and aldermen testify that the beggar was living among them in the ward, and the men of the ward made no mention of his name at the inquest held before the chamberlain and they do not even yet know what he is called, *to judgment on the Ward. [cf. 628]
Nota 7. Quod oportet nominare interfectum.
14th cent.: Scribatur [cf. 524 no. 7]. |