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PLEAS OF THE CROWN 46 HENRY III [1261-2]
119. In the same year, Peter de Gysorz being chamberlain, Richard de Wal ebrok, for whom Thomas Bokezi. answers, and Philip le Tayllur, who answers now, being sheriffs; Henry Peticors and Roger le Stedeman went to a house in the parish of All Hallows Colemanescherche, where lived Margery de Pyriton, Agnes de Blida, Dulcia Trye, Maud de Norfolk, Notekina Hoggenhore and Isabel la Rus, prostitutes; when they entered the house they found some foreign merchants there and, a quarrel arising between them, the merchants killed Henry and Roger and at once fled; it is not known who they were. It is found in the rolls of the chamberlain and sheriffs that the prostitutes were not attached when the inquest was held by the chamberlain and sheriffs, so *to judgment on the sheriffs. Now the prostitutes have absconded for the death and are suspected, so let them be exacted and waived according to the custom of the City. No chattels. The mayor and aldermen testify that they rented the house from Alice la Blunde, who lives in the City, so let her be arrested. All the neighbours come except Nicholas de Worcester and he is not suspected. Nicholas was attached by Godfrey de Bramleye and William Gardiner. So they are in *mercy. Afterwards Alice comes and for good or ill puts herself upon the verdict of the mayor and aldermen; they say in the faith in which they are bound to the king that she is not suspected, so she is quit. [cf. 617-18]
Nota 50. De vicecomitibus amerciatis quia non attachiaverunt meretrices que fuerunt presentes quando quedam felonia fuit facia.
14th cent.: Scribatur [cf. 524 no. 50].
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