1374-12-04, Westminster

Memorandum of acknowledgment by the parties, 6 December. 8. To William de Offord and his fellows, justices appointed to preserve the peace in Suffolk. Order by mainprise of William de Elmham knight and Ralph de Shelton knight of Norffolk to stay altogether the taking of the body of William Assheman, and if he be taken to set him free, although lately at the prayer of Walter Duke, averring that the said William Assheman threatened him in life and limbs, the king by writ ordered the said justices to cause William Assheman to come before them and compel him to find mainpernors who, under a pain to be by the justices laid upon them, would mainpern him that he should not do or procure any hurt to the said Walter; as the said knights, appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned that he shall do or procure no bodily hurt to the said Walter. 16.