1331-01-28, Hertford

To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order not to intermeddle further with the land that belonged to Richard Beaumon4, if it be in the king's hands solely for the reason specified below, as the king learns hy the record of John de Stonore and his fellows, his late justices to hear and determine divers felonies in that county, that Richard, being indicted before them for feloniously slaying William son of Gervase de Wiston at Wyche St. Mary, and being asked how he would acquit himself of the felony aforesaid, said that he was a clerk and that he could not answer there without the ordinaries, and he was convicted so far as a clerk could be convicted by an inquisition of the country there taken before the justices, by reason whereof his goods and chattels were taken into the king's hands, and because no ordinary came to demand him and because he was indicted of other felonies, he was remitted to prison, and now the king is given to understand that Richard died -in prison a natural death before he was delivered to the ordinary of that place, wherefore the king ordered the sheriff and coroners of the county to certify him concerning the said death, and they have signified that Richard was imprisoned in Launceveton gaol because he was indicted before the said justices for divers felonies and trespasses, and that he was there detained in great illness for fifteen days, of which illness he died on Saturday before St. Leonard last. It is provided that answer shall be made to the king for the chattels aforesaid.