1276-07-08, Canterbury

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