1276-07-08, Canterbury

The like to Thomas de Weylaund and John de Lovetot, on complaint by Richard de Parys and John de Bodeleye, sometime sheriffs of London, that whereas seven men were charged with the death of one Hugh le Keu, who was killed in the parish of St. Margaret within the said city, and for that reason were taken by the said sheriffs and detained in the prison of Neugate, and afterwards before Laurence de Brok and his fellows, justices of gaol delivery for Neugate, were liberated as not guilty of the said death, certain persons of the said city pre.sented before the said Thomas de Weyland and John de Lovetot in their eyre at the Tower of London that the aforesaid seven men escaped from the custody of the said Richard and John. The said sheriffs thereupon caused three of the aforesaid seven men found in the said city to be taken and brought before the said Thomas and John, in the hustings of London, who there put themselves upon the country as to the premises and were acquitted as the complainants allege. The king, being unwilling that the said Richard and John should be injured by this sinister presentation, grants the above commission.