73. In the same year Thomas Speron and Matthew Bukerel being chamberlains, William de Hassewy and Richard de Ewell being sheriffs; Thomas de St. Edmunds baker took sanctuary in the church of St. Thomas the Martyr on London Bridge, confessed that he had stolen a reliquary and other objects and abjured the realm. Because the chamberlain and sheriffs made no enquiry about his chattels, to judgment on them. Afterwards the alderman testifies that he had no chattels and was not in frankpledge, but was harboured in the ward of John Horn [Bridge ward], so to judgment on the whole ward.
Nota 31. De warda amerciata pro franco plegio [cf. 524 no. 311.