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258. Geoffrey Whiting and his wife Alice came out of a tavern together and, a quarrel arising between them, Geoffrey suffocated Alice. He at once fled and is suspected, so let him be exacted and outlawed according to the custom of the City.' Chattels 3s. for which the sheriffs are to answer. In addition he had 100s. which Ponce de Mora owed to him So John Horn and Ralph le Blunt sheriffs are ordered to raise that sum from Ponce's lands and chattels and to answer for it to the king. He was harboured in the ward of Henry de Coventre [Vintry ward] outside frankpledge, so the alderman and the whole ward are in *mercy. Isabel la Frauncis, who was attached for the death, comes and is not suspected, so she is quit. All the neighbours come except Peter le Cotiler and he is not suspected. He was attached by John de Castello and Leo the Clerk. So they are in mercy. Afterwards [m. 14] the mayor and aldermen testify that Geoffrey was in the frankpledge of Walter de Abeton and Robert le Messager, so the frankpledges are in mercy and the ward is quit of amercement for the harbouring. [cf. 267, 572]
1. See 238 n. 2. |