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Isabel daughter of Richard la [sic] Patemostrer was scalded to death in a leaden vessel full of hot water in her father's house. Value of the vessel 2s. (deodandum) for which the sheriffs are to answer. Edmund the Goldsmith and John le Heyward, neighbours, do not come and are not suspected. Edmund was attached by Richard Pecche and Hugh le Plumer, John by Richard le Paternostrer and Robert Stroby. So they are in *mercy. Emma de Len was attached for the death because she was in the house, but she does not come. She was attached by Alan Godard and Hugh de Rokyngham. So they are in *mercy. Because the wards of Anketin le Mercer, William de Durham and Bartholomew de Castello [Farringd on, Bread Street and ? Cripplegate wards] falsely valued the deodand before the chamberlain and sheriffs, *to judgment on them. No one else is suspected. Judgment: misadventure. [cf. 656, 660] |