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Anno sextodecimo.
77. Eodem anno Gervasio le Cordwaner existente camerario, Henrico de Edelmetone et Gerardo Batte vicecomitibus existentibus accidit die Dominica proxima ante festum Sancti Luce quod quidam homo Symon nomine inventus fuit mortuus in domo Ricardi de Chelmersford super kayum de quadam batura quam Reginaldus filius Bernardi de Berkingges ei fecit die Sabbati proxima ante predictum diem Dominicam apud Berkingges. Et Custantia uxor eiusdem Simonis affidavit se qui mortem illam versus predictum Bernardum et modo venit et sequitur. Et quia . . . contingit in comitatu Essexie extra libertatem Civitatis nec loquela . . ., dictum est eidem [Custancie] . . . versus eum in comitatu si veut donec utlagetur. Maior et cives . . . de facto illo . . . eiusdem Custancie. Ideo nichil. Et quia idem Reginaldus fugit pro morte illa ut testatur, preceptum . . . de terris et catallis . . . faciat ipsum [exigi] et venire per sectam predicte mulieris si ipsa in comitatu . . .
The sixteenth year [Mich. 1232—Mich. 1233].
In the same year, Gervase le Cordwaner being chamberlain, Henry of Edmonton and Gerard Batte sheriffs, on Sunday before St. Luke [17 Oct. 1232], a man named Simon was found dead in the house of Richard of Chelmsford upon the wharf, of an assault made upon him by Reginald, son of Bernard of Barking on the preceding Saturday [16 Oct.] at Barking. Constance, Simon's wife, swore to prosecute the aforesaid Bernard for the death, and now she comes and prosecutes. And because . . . happened in the county of Essex outside the liberty of the City, nor was the plaint . . . Constance is told . . . against him in the county court, if she so desires, until he is outlawed. The mayor and citizens . . . of the deed . . . of the same Constance. Therefore nothing. And because Reginald fled for the death, as is testified, it is ordered . . . of the lands and chattels . . . cause him to be put in exigent and to come at the suit of the said woman if she in the county court. . . |