1289-07-06, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 17 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 5

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Dated in source: “July 6” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 5 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to deliver Laurence le Beel, imprisoned at Chichester for the death of William son of Adam le Despenser, wherewith he is charged, who was put in exigent to be outlawed after the eyre of the justices last in eyre in that county, in bail to Ralph de Hengham, who has mainperned to have him before the king from day to day to stand to right, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Richard de Boylound and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver Chichester gaol, that Laurence slew William in self-defence. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.

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