1273-11-10, Northampton
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to cause proclamation to be made in the city that all merchant usurers shall depart thence within twenty days from the date of these letters, and shall leave the kingdom, under pain of forfeiture of their bodies and goods, and if they be found in the city after that date, to cause them to be arrested and kept safely until further orders, as the king wills that merchant usurers shall not stay in the city or elsewhere in the reaim. Roger son of Geoffrey de Ford, imprisoned at Shrewsbury for the death of Engelard de Bulers, whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Salop to bail him, Adam le Pessoner, imprisoned at Lancaster for the death of Roger de Stanihurst, whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to bail him,
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