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De anno duodecimo.
49. Eodem anno Gervasio le Cordwaner tunc existente camerario et predictis vicecomitibus existentibus accidit quod quidam Henricus de Buk'l die Lune proxima post festum Sancte Ethelburge occidit quemdam le Ireys le Tywelur quodam knipulo in vico de Fletebregge et fugit ad ecclesiam Sancte Marie de Suthwerk et cognovit factum et in presentia predictorum camerarii et vicecomiturh abiuravit regnum. Nulla habuit catalla. Et major et tota Civitas dicunt quod nullus alius culpabilis est de morte illa nec aliquem alium inde male credunt. Et quia predicti camerarius et vicecomites fecerunt predictum Henricum abiurare regnum in comitatu Surreie extra libertatem suam2 contra coronam et dignitatem domini regis et preterea nullum fecerunt attachiamentum- pro morte illa, ideo sint in misericordia. Et sciendum quod predictus Henricus ignotus fuit et non fuit in franco plegio. Ideo nichil.3
1. Riley suggests Bukenham or Bukent, Liber Albus, i, 86 n. 2.
2. See Cal. of Coroners' Rolls, ed. R. R. Sharpe (1913), p. xiv, n. 1.
3. Margin: Nota de quodam fugiente ad ecclesiam de Suthwerke et ibidem abiurante regnum coram camertirio et vicecomitibus Londoniarum per quod camerarius et vicecomites Londoniarum fuerunt amerciati, which is longer than the heading of Cap. xii in Liber Albus, i, 72 and 86. The text in Liber Albus shows only inconsequential variations but the text and marginal note in Liber Ordinationum, f. 208 are noticeably abbreviated.
Of the twelfth year [Mich. 1228—Mich. 1229].
In that year, Gervase le Cordwaner being the chamberlain, and the same sheriffs being still in office, on Monday after the feast of St. Ethelburga [16 Oct. 1228], Henry de Buk' killed a certain Irishman, a tiler, with a knife in Fleet Bridge Street, and fled to the church of St. Mary Southwark. He acknowledged the deed, and in the presence of the chamberlain and sheriffs, abjured the realm. He had no chattels. The mayor and the whole City say that no one else is guilty of the death, nor is anyone suspected: and because the chamberlain and sheriffs caused the said Henry to abjure the realm in the county of Surrey outside their liberty, contrary to the crown and dignity of the king, and, furthermore, made no attachment for the death they are in mercy. And be it known that the aforesaid Henry was unknown, and not in frankpledge. Therefore nothing. |