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patent roll 1272-81 p179
Commission of oyer and terminer.....
The like to Thomas de Weylaundand John de Lovetot, on complaint by
Richard de Parys and John de Bodeleye, sometime sheriffs of London, that whereas seven men were charged with tbe death of one Hugh le K.eu, who was killed in the parish of St. Margaret within the said city, and for that reason were taken by tbe said sheriffs and detained in tbe prison of Neugate, and afterwards before Laurence de Brok and his fellows, justices of gaol delivery for Neugate, were liberated as not guilty of the said death, certain persons of the 6aid city presented before the said Thomas de Weyland and John de Lovetot in their eyre at the Tower of London that the aforesaid seven men escaped from tbe custody of the said Richard and John.
The said sheriffs thereupon caused three of the aforesaid seven men found
in the said city to be taken and brought before tbe said Thomas and John,
in the hustings of London, who there put themselves upon tbe country as to
the premises and were acquitted as the complainants allege. The king,
being unwilling that the said Richard and John should be injured by this
sinister presentation, grants tbe above commission. |