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37. On the morrow of St. Andrew the Apostle [1 Dec. 1253] in the ward of Simon de Hadstok [Queenhithe ward], Ralph the Parmenter and William Gille quarrelled in the house of Walter de Exeport and later went out of the house and during the dispute Ralph hit William on the head with a wooden staff, so that he quickly died. Ralph was arrested by Walter de Exeport and handed over to Richard Picard and John de Norhamton then sheriffs, who imprisoned him in Newgate. Because it is testified that Ralph is still alive and living in the City and no one knows how he was delivered from prison, to judgment on the sheriffs for the *escape. The sheriffs are ordered to arrest Ralph and have his body in court on the following day ( ? hic cras). Walter de Exeport, John Milneward, Adam Scot and Ralph le Joynur, four neighbours, do not come. Walter was attached by Laurence le Brocher and William Dibel, John by Nicholas Hunde and William Hog, Adam by William Baterell and William Forain, Ralph by Laurence le Brocher and Baldwin le Tymbermonger. So they are in *mercy. The mayor and aldermen, asked if they suspect the neighbours, say in the faith in which they are bound to the king that they do not. Ralph comes on the following day and says when asked how he was delivered from prison, that it was by royal writ in the shrievalty of John de Norhamton. Asked where the writ of mainprise is, he says that it was taken from him in time of war, but that he was handed over to Paulin de Thorp skinner and William de Evesham who are present and acknowledge the fact; likewise to Richard de Batewell, William de Batewell, Simon de Norhamton, Geoffrey Poteys, John de Garst, Thomas Prest `peleter', Henry de Cestfeud, Thomas de Barton, Siward de Hertford and Thomas de Cambridge who were to have him here on the first day and did not have him. So they are in *mercy. *To judgment on John de Norhamton because he did not answer earlier for the mainprise, but nothing because the mainprise is not found in the coroner's roll. Asked how he wishes to clear himself, Ralph denies the death and everything and offers the king *20s. for enquiry to be made by the mayor and aldermen; by licence of the justices this is permitted. The mayor and aldermen say in the faith in which they are bound to the king that he is not guilty. So he is quit. But they say that Richard Fukelape of Northamptonshire killed William, so *let him be exacted and outlawed according to the custom of the City. Chattels *2s. for which the sheriffs are to answer. [cf. 533]
Nota 13. Quod ambo vicecomites responderunt de evasione licet aliquis evadat ab uno eorum.
Nota 14. Quod oportet quod manucapcio irrotuletur in rotulo camerarii.
14th cent.: Scribatur [cf. 524 nos. 13-14]. |