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
15. Lucy of Morwinstow appeals Robert de Scaccis and Roland -of Kellio
and Peter of Lancarf of robbing her of twenty shillings and eight
pence, and of a cloak, price a half-mark. And it is testified by the
jurors that they did not rob her, and that she is a hireling, and that
a man lay with her in a garden, and the boys hooted her, so that she
left her cloak, and the boys took it and pawned it for two gallons of
wine. It is considered that Robert do give her three pence in respect
of the wine and do go quit. And Roland and Peter neither come nor
essoin [present an excuse for nonappearance] themselves. And their
pledges were Nicholas brother of Alfred of Bodmin and Herbert Reeve of
Bodmin, who are therefore in mercy.
16. Osbert Church accused of the death of Roland, son of Reginald of
Kennel, on the appeal of the said Reginald, was detained in gaol and
defends word by word. And Reginald - - offers proof by the body of a
certain freeman, Arkald, who has his [Reginald's] daughter to wife, who
is to prove in his stead, since he has passed the age of sixty. Osbert
Church defends all of it. The knights of the hundred of Penwith say
that they suspect him of the said death. The - - knights of kerrier
[hundred] say the same. The knights of Penwith [hundred] say the same.
The knights of Pyder [hundred] say the same. Judgment: let him purge
himself by water, and Reginald is in mercy, for he does not allege
sight and hearing, and because he has withdrawn himself, and put
another in his place, who neither saw nor heard and yet - - offered to
prove it, and so let both Reginald and Arkald be in mercy. Osbert is
purged by the water. Osbert's pledges: Henry Little, Henry of Penant,
Ossulf Black, Roger of Trevithow, John of Glin, Ralph of Trelew.
17. Roger of Wick [was] appealed of the death of Brictmer by the appeal
of Hawise, Brictmer's wife, and was captured in flight, as say John of
Winielton and Ralph of Mertherin, but the flight is not testified by
the hundred. Kerier [hundred] says the same. Penwith [hundred] says the
same. So is considered that he purge himself by water. He is purged.
Roger's pledges: Ralph of Trelew, Ogier of Kurnick, Richard, Simon's
son, Alfred Malvoisin, Everwin of Lande, John of Kewerion, Warin of
Tiwardeni, Baldwin Tirel, Roger of - - Trevithow, John of Glin, William
of Dunham, Thomas, Osbert's - - son.
18. Richard, William's son, appealed Luke, Richard's son, and William,
the servant of Alan Clerk, of robbery and of binding him. The appellees
have not come nor essoined themselves. The county together with the
wapentake says that they were appealed, not of the king's peace, but of
the sheriff's peace, so that the suit was and is in the county [court],
and therefore they were not attached to come before the justices.
Therefore the jurors are in mercy for presenting what they ought not to
have presented.
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