1293-08-27, Clarendon

To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause Simon, chaplain of Thorneberg, to be delivered from prison at Oxford, as the king learns from the record of Robert Malet and Hugh de Braunceston, late justices to deliver Oxford gaol, that when Robert de Luceles lately struggled with Wiliam Morel in the church of Dadinton, and Robert endeavoured to strike William with an iron carmdlestick sharpened at both ends, Simon, perceiving this, went to settle the dispute between them and took the candlestick and held it so that Robert could not strike William with it, and Robert, being enraged at this, tore the candlestick with great violence from Simon's hands and struck himself with one end thereof in the belly, of which blow he afterwards died, so that Simon is not guilty of his death.