Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) EditionReilly, S. A.
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Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) Edition
Reilly, S. A.
Law -- England -- History
13. Peter Burel appeals Anketil of Wingely, for that he wickedly in the
king's peace assaulted him in the field where he was pasturing his oxen,
and beat him, and gave him four wounds in the head, and in robbery
took from him an ax and a sword; and this he offers to prove against
him; but he shows no wound. And Anketil defends. And the county records
that [Peter] first appealed Roger of Tregadec of the same robbery and
of the same wounds. Therefore it is considered that the appeal is null,
and let Peter be in mercy for a false appeal. His amercement, a
half-mark; pledge for it, Ralph Giffard.
14. The jurors are in mercy for a silly presentment, for they presented
an appeal which was made in the hundred [court] and which was not
presented in the county [court].
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.
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