1375-10-28, Westminster

To the sheriffs of London. Order by mainprise of Thomas Dedemore and William de London to stay the taking of the body of John Dedemore clerk, although lately upon the petition of John Torold and William Legge of London carter, averring that the said clerk threatened them in their bodies and limbs, the king ordered the sheriffs to cause him to come before them, and to compel him to find mainpernors who, under a pain to be by the sheriffs laid upon them, would mainpern him that he should cause or procure no hurt or harm to the complainants, and if he should refuse, to commit him to Neugate gaol, there to be kept in safe custody until he would willingly so do ; as the said Thomas and William de London, appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned under a pain of 40/. that he shall cause or procure no bodily hurt or harm to the complainants. Writing of Walter Colingbourne, being a quitclaim with warranty to William Hechecok of Chaldebourne, his heirs and assigns, of all lands, rents and services in the town of Andovere co. Hampton sometime of John Ingulf. Witnesses : Michael Skyllyng, Nicholas Bray, Edmund Spircok, Robert May, John London. Dated Andovere, the feast of All Saints 49 Edward III.