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152. Simon le Parker was found killed in the ward of Adam de Brunyng [Farringdon ward]; Robert le Peleter and Walter le Fruter were arrested for the death, imprisoned at Newgate and delivered there before Hugh Bygot justice [of gaol delivery]. Walter comes and, asked how he wishes to clear himself, says that previously he was delivered by jury before Hugh and was acquitted by judgment of the king's court. The mayor and aldermen testify to this in the faith in which they are bou rd to the king so he is quit. Saer de Harecourt, Geoffrey de Crek, Philip de Nothlethe and Robert de Lastebyr' were attached for the death because th y were present when Simon was killed, but they do not come. They [sic] were attached by Geoffrey de Roynges [and] Richard le Coffrer, Geoffrey by John de Shordich and James le Botiler, Philip and Robert by Saer.1 So they are in mercy. The mayor and aldermen say that they do not suspect them of \the death. All the neighbours have died.
Nota 62. Quod cum aliquis attachiatus pro felonia deliberatus fuerit coramjusticiariis de Newegate, non tenetur respondere coram justiciariis itinerantibus.
14th cent.: Scribatur [cf. 524 no. 62].
1. The attachments appear to be garbled. |