June 35, Inquisition

Writ to the sheriff of Warwick. It is stated on behalf of the and convent of Kenyllewurth that one William le Hare, the Nativity of Lady last [8 September 1276], without the knowledge of the prior and climbed alone, up a new work of theirs adjoining their church of to take squabs (pullos columbarum) in the hollows (cavernis) of the work : and setting his foot on a piece of wood placed in one of the hollows, up from the ground, the wood broke and he fell to the ground and was to pieces (frustratim confractus) and immediately expired. And two servants of the prior and convent, Robert de Tene and John Corbyn, of the accident they secretly bore the body outside the convent into a by Kenyllewurth and left it there as though William had been slain by The body was found, and it being proved at the coroner s inquest Robert and John had carried the body out of the priory, the sheriff them and brother Nicholas de Bredon, sacristan of the priory, and Robert and John and imprisoned them at Warwick. The sheriff coroners with two discreet knights of the county are to go to the priory and an inquisition into all the above matters. Worcester. 30 September Edward I. [1276.] Return by the sheriff : He went to Kenelworth with the coroners, and Andrew . . . de Hasting and Thomas de Hasele, knights, and took an on Saturday after Martinmas 4 Edward I [14 November 1276]. jury found that the death occurred as above. And that Robert de Tene, (fractor quarrere) and John Corbyn, mason (?) (. . . lapidum) the work found the body the next day, and being afraid Nicholas de Bredon sacristan would dismiss them if the body were found, they took the body his knowledge, or that of the prior and convent, to the wood. Ralph Melleborn, passing through the wood, found the body and raised the hue cry. William de Herdewik, coroner, held the inquest. William le Hare not killed by Nicholas, Robert or John, but died by misadventure. 2204.