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37. Anno regni regis Henrici filii regis Johannis decimo terminata fuerunt placita circiter festum Sancti Georgii et post terminum ilium fuerunt vicecomites Martinus filius Willelmi et Rogerus le Duc per dimidium annum.' Et ante terminum ilium fuerunt vicecomites per annum et dimidium de quo tempore responderunt coram justiciariis et modo venit Willelmus filius Rogeri et Johannes Viel junior et respondent pro eis qui obierunt, et Johannes la Persone respondit pro Thoma de Blumville qui tunc fuit camerarius et obiit, et dicunt quod anno decimo die medie quadragesime quidam infans inventus fuit submersus in quodam puteo. Nullus inde malecreditur. Judicium infortunium. Et Stephanus le Cohere pater predicti infantis et Elena mater eius fuerunt attachiati pro morte illa et Stephanus mortuus est et ideo nichil de eo. Elena non Nenit et fuit attachiata per Thomam de Cornhulle2 monetarium, Walterum de Ballivo monetarium, Stephanum Ruffum monetarium, Henricum de Cant' monetarium, Alanum . . le Fundour, Walterum Heved, Willelmum de [ ? Kyngham] parmentarium, Ricardum Blundum tanur, Thomam . . . ter colier. Ideo omnes in misericordia. Et vicini 'attachiati pro morte illa rnortui sunt et eorum plegii similiter. Ideo nichil de eis. Et maior2 et barones dicunt quod nullum debent presentare inventorem. Et quia predictus camerarius et ipsi qui respondentpro vicecomitibus nesciuntutrum2predictus infans fuit masculus vel feminaculus, ideo in misericordia.3
Respice in tergo.
1. Liber Ordinationum, f. 207d contains a condensed version of the report from which emendations of the text have been supplied. The Pipe Rolls show that Martin fitz William and Roger le Duc served as sheriffs for half a year before the eyre of 1226 and for one and a half years thereafter. The confusion reappears in Liber Albus, i, 82 and may be due to the replacement of sheriffs in July 1227 (42).
2. Supplied from Liber Ordinationum, as the foot of m.1 of the roll is much damaged and defaced.
3. Liber Ordinationum adds non scribatur and the marginal gloss: Hic fuerunt camerarius et vicecomites amerciati quia nesciebant utrum infans mortuus fuit masculus vel feminaculus.
In 10 Henry III the pleading ended about the feast of St. George [23 April 1226], and after that date Martin fitz William and Roger le Duc were sheriffs for half a year, and before it they were sheriffs for a year and a half, for which term they answered before the justices. And now come William son of Roger and John Viel, junior, and answer for those who have died, and John la Persone answers for Thomas de Blumville, who was then chamberlain, and has died; and they say that in the tenth year at mid-Lent [21 March 1227] an infant was found drowned in a pit. No one is suspected of the death. Judgment: misadventure. Stephen le Cohere, father of the child, and Ellen its mother, were attached for the death. Stephen has died, therefore nothing from him. Ellen does not come, and she was attached by Thomas of Cornhill, moneyer, Walter of the Bailey, moneyer, Stephen Ruffus, moneyer, Henry de Cant', moneyer, Alan . . . le Fundour, Walter Heved, William of Kingham, parmenter, Richard Blund, tanner, Thomas . . . ter, collier. Therefore they are all in mercy. And the neighbours attached for the death have died, and their pledges likewise. Therefore nothing from them. And the mayor and barons say that they are not bound to produce the finder. And because the aforesaid chamberlain and those who answer for the sheriffs do 'not know whether the child was male or female, they are in mercy.
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