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500. Hugh de Gloucestre complains of Walter son of Ellen de Flete, John le Taverner, and John de Brokesburne that on Friday in the first week of Lent this year [28 Feb. 1276] after the summons [of the eyre] they and others seized him at Fletebrugg in the ward of Anketin de Auverne [Farringdon ward] after curfew and struck him with iron staves, swords and axes, wounding and ill-treating him, so that he barely escaped with his life, against the peace, whence he says that he has suffered loss and damage to the value of £,10 and he brings suit. Walter, John and John come and deny force and injury. They deny that they ever beat Hugh on that day or committed any trespass against him, as he alleges, and put themselves upon the ward. Hugh [does] likewise. The jury say on the oath that they made to the king and in the faith in which they are bound to him that Walter and the others never beat Hugh or committed any offence against him. So it is adjudged that Walter and the others be without day and Hugh in *mercy.
[cf. 710]
[Nota unnumbered]. Placitum de transgressione. |