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108. Eodem anno etc. accidit die Sancti Johannis Apostoli quod quidam homo Rogerus nomine inventus fuit de nocte in vico de Kendelwikestrat ita verberatus et male tractatus quod loqui non potuit. Et Ricardus Tyllebrigge, Elias filius Willelmi Goday, Willelmus Utlaghe, Ricardus filius Ricardi Nog' et Robertus de Berkhampstede custodes vigiliarum, ita ipsum invenerunt in vico predicto et ipsum portaverunt ad domum Thome le Pipere ubi obiit valde mane de batura illa; et postea predicti custodes abierunt de warda sua2 ad wardam Rogeri Blundi tunc aldermanni,3 quia credebant ipsum hominem esse de warda illa, ut aliquam veritatem possint habere qualiter hoc accidisset, ubi requisiti fuerunt
custodes illius warde si aliquid scirent de predicto Johanne qui responderunt quod fuit socius eorum ad vigilandum in nocte illa. Et sicut iverunt omnes simul ad vigilandum, accidit quod obviaverunt cuidam homini portanti quamdam lanternam extinctam, quem prosecuti fuerunt usque ad oppositum shoppe Consel, ubi plures invenerunt ignotos stantes in vico cum gladiis et aliis armis, quos cum predicti custodes arestare voluerunt, idem ignoti insultum fecerunt in predictos custodes et predictum Rogerum [sic]' ita verberaverunt quod obiit, et alios de custodia illa male vulneraverunt et fugerunt. Et tunc quesitum fuit a custodibus si aliquem cognoverunt de predictis malefactoribus vel aliquem male crediderunt, dixerunt quod male crediderunt Willelmum le Largt coureur, qui ob factum illud fugit et nunquam postea inveniri potuit. Et Gerardus de Sancto Edmundo unus custodum qui fuit vulneratus per predictos malefactores venit. Et requisitus si aliquem male credit, dicit quod nichil aliud scit, quam supradictum est. Et major et cives requisiti quem male credunt de predicta morte et plagis predictis, dicunt quod male credunt predictum Walterum [sic]l- le Large et nullum alium, quia ignoti fuerunt, ideo exigitur et utlagatur secundum etc. Catalla eius ij s. unde vicecomites etc. Et Walterus
[sic]' fuit in franco plegio. Ideo in misericordia.4
1. Where there is a confusion of names [sic] has been inserted.
2. Presumably Candlewick or Walbrook Ward.
3. Cordwainer Ward, Beaven, i, 367.
4. Margin: exigatur et utlageturlij s. misericordia.
In the same year etc., on the feast of St. John the Apostle [27 Dec. 1236], a man named Roger [sic] was found by night in Candlewick Street so badly beaten and ill-treated that he could not speak. Richard Tyllebrigge, Elias son of William Goday, William Utlaghe, Richard son of Richard Nog', and Robert of Berkhampstead, watchmen, found him thus in the street and carried him to the house of Thomas le Pipere, where he died very early next morning of that beating. Afterwards the watchmen went from their ward to that of Roger Blund, then alderman, because they believed the dead man to belong to that ward, to see if they could learn the truth about how the affair had happened. The watchmen of that ward, asked if they knew anything about the above-named John [sic] said that he was their companion in keeping watch that night, and as they were all going together to keep watch, they chanced to meet a man carrying an unlighted lantern, whom they pursued as far as opposite Consel's shop. There they found a number of unknown men standing in the street, armed with swords and other weapons, who, when they attempted to arrest them, assaulted them, and so beat Roger [sic] that he died. The other members of the watch they badly wounded, and then fled. Asked then whether they recognized any of the malefactors or suspected anyone, the watch said that they suspected William le Large, 'coureur', who fled for the deed and could never afterwards be found. Gerard of St. Edmunds, one of the watchmen who was wounded by the malefactors, comes, and asked if he suspects anyone, says that he knows nothing more than has been said above. The mayor and aldermen, asked whom they suspect of the said death and wounds, say that they suspect the same Walter [sic] le Large and no one else, because the others were unknown. Therefore he is to be put in exigent and outlawed according etc.
His chattels are worth 2s., for which the sheriffs are to answer. He was in frankpledge. Therefore [his pledges] are in mercy. |