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PLEAS OF THE CROWN 2 EDWARD I [1273-4]
246. In the same year, Gregory de Roqesley being chamberlain and Henry de Coventre and Nicholas de Wynton' being sheriffs; John Coubely and Richard Wert were with others on a ship at the wharf of Laurence Harde1,1 loading it with wine, when a quarrel broke out among them; Stephen le Esert came up to strike John and John seeing this fell out of the ship into the water in avoiding the blow and was drowned.- Stephen was afterwards arrested and delivered by jury before John de Cobham at Neugate, so nothing from him. Laurence de Amewell was attached because he was on the ship at the time, but he does not come and is not suspected. He was attached by Richard de Ware and Henry de Ware. So they are all in mercy. Because the sheriffs did not attach William Skinnere of Ware and the others who were on the ship and because the chamberlain made no mention of their names in his roll, to judgment on the chamberlain and sheriffs. All the neighbours come and are not suspected, so they are quit. Afterwards the mayor and aldermen testify that Richard Werry [sic] was arrested and detained in prison at Neugate and afterwards released publicly by royal writ to Simon le Clerk `bereman', [Edmund]t de Suffolk vintner, Walter de [Gloucestre],t Walter le Pender, Robert de Rotherhethe, Henry le Wowere `bereman', Roger le [Seler],t Geoffrey le Weringe, Robert de Ware, Solomon le Juvin, Adam Spendelove `bereman' and William [Barber servant]t of John Adrian to have him here on the first day and they did not have him. So they are in mercy. Richard comes and is not suspected, so he is quit. [cf. 565]
f Words supplied from 565; plea roll much faded.
1. ? In Vintry ward (cf. E. Ekwall, Street-names of the City of London (1954), 138-9 under Hardeleslane). |