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29. On Friday after the feast of SS. Peter and Paul [4 July 1253] Guyot servant of Master Matthew Boby encountered Amato de Garsie, a Roman, and, a quarrel arising between them, Arnato hit Guyot on the arm and wounded him in other parts of the body so that he died on the third day after in the house of Master Sylvester de Anania in the ward of Nicholas de Wynton' [Langbourn ward]. Arnato at once fled and is suspected, so let him be exacted and outlawed according to the law and custom of the City. Chattels *3 which William de Durham sheriff is to answer. Because the mayor and aldermen testify that Arnato was harboured in the ward for a long time outside frankpledge, to judgment on the ward. Master Sylvester and his servant Bernard de Chaors were attached for the death because Guyot died in Sylvester's house and they do not come. Master Sylvester was attached by Andrew le Fraunceys and William Prest, Bernard by John Theoland and Richard Faukes. So they are in *mercy. The sheriffs are ordered to arrest Sylvester and Bernard if they can be found. Because William de Durham and Thomas de Wymbourn then sheriffs attached Sylvester and Bernard each by only two pledges whereas anyone suspected of a man's death should be attached by twelve, to judgment on the sheriffs. Afterwards the sheriff' testifies that they have not been found. The mayor and aldermen say in the faith in which they are bound to the king that they do not suspect them and that they did not abscond because of the death.
Therefore nothing from them. [cf. 531]
Nota 9. Ad iudicium quia quidam receptatus fuit extra francum plegium.
Nota 10. De vicecomitibus amerciatis quia dimiserunt quemdam attachiatum pro morte hominis per duos plegios ubi deberet [sic] invenisse xii plegios.
14th cent.: Scribatur [cf. 524 nos. 9-10].
1. Viz. William de Durham, surviving. |