Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776Reilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
1. -Denise, who was wife to Anthony, appeals Nicholas Kam of the death
of Anthony, her husband, for that he wickedly slew her husband; and
this she offers to prove against him under award of the court. And
Nicholas defends all of it. It is considered that Denise's appeal is
null, for in it she does not say that she saw the deed. The jurors
being asked, say that they suspect him of it; the whole county likewise
suspects him. Let him purge himself by water [ordeal] under the Assize.
He has waged his law.
2. -William de Ros appeals Ailward Bere, Roger Bald, Robert Merchant,
and Nicholas Parmenter, for that they came to his house and wickedly in
the king's peace took away from him a certain villein of his whom he
kept in chains because he wished to run away, and led him off, and in
robbery carried away his wife's coffer with one mark of silver and
other chattels; and this he offers to prove by his son, Robert de Ros,
who saw it. And Ailward and the others have come and defended the
felony, robbery, and breach of the king's peace, and say that (as the
custom is in Cornwall) Roger of Prideaux, by the sheriff's orders,
caused twelve men to come together and make oath about the said
villein, whether he was the king's villein or William's and it was
found that he was the king's villein, so the said Roger the serjeant
demanded that [William] should surrender him, and he -refused, so
[Roger] sent to the sheriff, who then sent to deliver [the villein],
who, however, had escaped and was not - - to be found, and William
makes this appeal because he wishes to keep the chattels of Thomas [the
villein], to wit, two oxen, one cow, one mare, two pigs, nine sheep,
eleven goats. - - And that this is so the jurors testify. Judgment:
William and Robert in mercy for the false claim. William's amercement,
a half-mark. Robert's amercement, a half-mark. Pledge for the mark,
Warin, Robert's son. Let the king have his chattels from William.
Pledge for the chattels, Richard, Hervey's son.
3. -Serlo of Ennis-Caven appeals Osbert of Dimiliock and Jordan,
Walter's son, for that they in the king's peace wickedly assaulted,
beat and seriously wounded him, so that by reason of the beating three
bones were extracted from his head; and this he offers to prove against
him under the court's award as a man maimed by that mayhem. And it is
testified by the coroners that the wounds when fresh were shown in the
county [court], and that [the bones were broken] as aforesaid. And
Osbert and Jordan come and defend word by word. It is considered that
Osbert do purge himself by ordeal of iron on account of the appeal, for
Serlo betook himself against Osbert in the first instance. And let
Jordan be in custody until it be known how Osbert shall fare. And the
other persons who are appealed as accessories are to be under pledge
until [Osbert's fate] be known.
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