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132. In the same year, William de Purstok being chamberlain, for whom Ellis de Herteford answers, and the same being sheriffs; on Wednesday before the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist [20 June 1263] Simon Godgrom went to bathe in the Thames and was accidentally drowned. No one is suspected. Judgment: misadventure. Adam Picard, a neighbour, does not come and is not suspected. He was attached by Thomas le Blater and Ralph Hayron. So they are in *mercy. Because the accident happened in the ward of Castle Baynard and the sheriffs and chamberlain held their inquest with the men of the ward of Richard de Ewelle [Farringdon ward], to judgment on them. Afterwards Adam Pycard comes and is not suspected, so nothing from him or his pledges. |