1326-01-24, Norwich

Commission to Walter de Friskeney and Robert de Malberthorp reciting that, whereas John de Englis of Wyram, an approver lately in the prison of the Marshalsea of the household, when he was alive, appealed John Russell of Pynchebek before the coroners of the household of adherence to Roger de Mortuo Mari, William Trussell and other rebels and of consent and aid to other rebels in the retaining and levying of divers men, horsemen and footmen against the king, and appealed certain other persons of divers felonies, and the king commanded the coroners to cause the said approver to come before him with his appeals and attachments and other evidences a fortnight after Martinmas last, and the said approver on that day retracted his appeal entirely, and some other persons attached by the said appeal alleged that the approver, before his appeal against them, abjured the realm at the church of the Friars Minors of Lenne, at Lenne, co. Norfolk, whereby they ought not to make answer to the appeal, and herein vouched to warranty the record of the coroners of the county, inasmuch as in the record ii is found that this is so, the king has quashed the said appeal ; and now on behalf of the said John, who is on that account in the king's prison at Lincoln, petition has been made for his deliverance, he being ready to stand his trial on all points, and the king therefore commands the said Walter and Robert, if he can show that he is in custody on that charge and no other, to take his mainprise, if he can find mainpernors, to be before the king fifteen days after being summoned and that he will bear himself well from now, and to have before him on the quinzaine of Haster the names of the mainpernors and this writ.