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82. Eodem anno etc. accidit die Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis quod quidam homo Ricardus de la Pole nomine inventus fuit mortuus in domo sua de quadam batura quam Willelmus le Barbour et Alexander Lorimer garcio ipsius ei fecerunt et fuerunt attachiati pro morte illa et non veniunt. Et Willelmus fuit attachiatus per Willelmum le Calicer, Adam le Megucer, Willelmum Surdum tannur, Rogerum le Paumer, b rimer, Nicholaum [ ? Lies] fuster, Henricum Godriche et Robertum le Fuster. Et Alexander fuit attachiatus per Walterum Senescallum qui vivit et per xij alios qui omnes obierunt. Ideo de eis nichil et alii in misericordia. Et quesitum fuit a maiore et civibus si male credunt ipsos de morte illa, dicunt quod sic. Et Willelmus le Barbour fuit in franco plegio in warda Laurencii de Frowyke.1 Ideo franci plegii in misericordia, scilicet Andreas le Peintour et Walterus le Seler.
1. Beaven, i, 372 lists him as alderman of Ludgate and Newgate (Farringdon Ward) only c. 1240. For a similar uncertainty of identifying an alderman and his ward see 142 n. 1, 161 n. 1, 350 and 401.
In the same year, etc. on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, [14 Sept. 1233], a man named Richard de la Pole was found dead in his house of an assault committed by William le Barbour and Alexander Lorimer, his servant. They were attached for the death, but do not come. William was attached by William le Calicer, Adam le Megucer, William the Deaf, tanner, Roger le Paumer, b rimer, Nicholas [?Lies], fuster, Henry Godriche and Robert le Fuster ; and Alexander was attached by Walter the Seneschal who is still living, and by twelve others who have all died. Therefore nothing from them and the others are in mercy. The mayor and citizens are asked if they suspect [William and Alexander] of the death, and they say that they do. William le Barbour was in frankpledge in the, ward of Laurence de Frowyke. Therefore the frankpledges are in mercy viz. Andrew le Peintour and Walter le Seler. |