1347-09-20, Thame

To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to release Adam de Longbok from prison Thame. _ by a mainprise, as although he was lately indicted for the death of Michael de Ponynges, le uncle, knight, and Thomas le Clerc, killed at Beaunes, for the rape of Margery, late the wife of Nicholas de la Beche there and for other excesses, before William de Thorp and his fellows, justices appointed to enquire upon the premises, and is imprisoned for that cause, yet John de Monquoye and Richard de Kent have mainperned to have him before the justices on the next day of their session upon the premises to stand to right in accordance with the law and custom of the realm. Oct. 10.