1348-03-10, Westminster

To the sheriffs of London. Order to release John de Crydenwalle from prison as William de Careswell impleads John before the justices of the Bench to render account to him for the time when he was receiver of his money, and because the sheriffs returned before the justices that John had nothing in the bailiwick, the king ordered the sheriffs by writ de judicio to take John and keep him safely so that they should have him before the justices at Westminster on the quinzaine of Easter next to answer to William for the said account, by pretext of which writ the sheriffs took John and detain him in prison, and he has besought the king to aid him as he is ready to answer William in the premises, and William de Hesil of Holbourn, Robert Boughton, spicer, William de Bolton and John de Gloucestre of co. Middlesex have mainperned before the king in chancery to have John before the justices on the said day to answer William for the said account, and further to do and receive what the king's court shall determine.