167. In the same year, Reginald de Suffolk being chamberlain and Walter Hervy and Gregory de Roqesle being sheriffs;' on Friday before the feast of SS. Simon and Jude [23 Oct. 1265] unknown malefactors killed John Ballard in the ward of Richard de Ewell [Farringdon ward]. They at once fled and it is not known who they were. All the neighbours come and are not suspected. Because it is testified that they were Thomas de Clare's men, the mayor and aldermen are told to enquire into their names. Afterwards the mayor and aldermen say in the faith in which they are bound to the king that they are unable to enquire who they were, so nothing.
1. Presumably 50 Henry III but there is no record of Rokesle and Hervy serving together (cf. 4 n. 5).