The Court Rolls of Ramsey, Hepmangrove, and Bury, 1268–1600

BLAdd.Roll39704, m.3r (AD1379)

INDICTMENTS MADE AT RAMSEY BEFORE WILLIAM MOIGNE AND HIS ASSOCIATES, KEEPERS OF THE LORD KING'S PEACE IN THE COUNTY OF HUNTINGDON, ON THURSDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT, IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING RICHARD II. [1]

1

[JURORS:] Martin Barker, Richard Oxeburgh, William Pidifer, John Baldewyn, Simon atte Cros Senior, John Barker, William atte Ston, John Beverech, Simon Pudifer, Michael Seman, John Hobbesson, John Page of Wistow.

2

Indictment of John Milnere and John May of Ramsey for holding one horse mill and charging 1 d. too much for each bushel of corn, contrary to the statutes of the first and second years of King Richard II. [2]

3

Indictment of Laurence Miltecombe, Bailiff of the Liberty of the Banlieu of the Abbot of Ramsey, for not performing his office regarding bakers keeping the assize of bread, to the greatest oppression of the people and vill of Ramsey. Namely: in the first year of the present King. [3]

4

Indictment of Laurence Miltecombe for preventing the Constables of Ramsey from performing their office in seizing Thomas Whitmyll of Ramsey when commanded by the King's steward, at the suit of Agnes [...], [4] on or about the feast of St Matthew the Apostle, in the first year of King Richard II, [5] by forewarning him [of his impending arrest.]

5

(Denial.) Indictment of Thomas Whitemyll as being a common disturber of the peace of the Lord King when he was Constable of Ramsey, in the first year of the present King. [6]

6

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas, in that on or about the feast of St Peter in Chains, in the second year of King Richard II, [7] he went about armed in the fields and marsh of Ramsey, contrary to the King's peace.

7

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas for beating Nicholas Hirst of Ramsey on Sunday before the feast of St Michael, in the second year of King Richard II, [8] in Ramsey, against the peace of the Lord King.

8

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas for striking Robert, servant of Agnes Clerk of Ramsey, with a cudgel and breaking his arm and badly beating him, against the peace of the Lord King, at Ramsey, on or about the feast of Pentecost, in the fifty-first year of King Edward III. [9]

9

Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of St Martin, in the fiftieth year of King Edward III, [10] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, beat and wounded Elias Pottere and his brother, John Re[...]on [11] so badly that their lives were endangered.

10

(Justification.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of the Ascension, in the fifty-first year of King Edward III, [12] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, beat and wounded William Taillor of Hepmangrove.

11

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of All Saints, in the fiftieth year of King Edward III, [13] he, at Bury and against the King's peace, broke the arm of Emma Sampson of Bury and beat her.

12

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of St Andrew, in the first year of King Richard II, [14] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, beat Geoffrey Tilneye of Ramsey.

13

(Justification.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of St Andrew, in the first year of the present King, [15] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, beat and mistreated Geoffrey Grubbe or Ramsey and his wife, Katherine.

14

(Denial.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for assault], in that on or about the feast of St Michael, in the forty-ninth year of King Edward III, [16] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, beat Lettice Preest of Ramsey.

15

(Acquittal.) Indictment of the same Thomas [for theft], in that on or about the feast of All Saints, in the forty-ninth year of King Edward III, [17] he, in the marsh of Ramsey, feloniously stole one white calf worth 3 s. from Richard Monstrel.

16

Indictment of the same Thomas, in that, on or about the feast of St Martin, in the second year of the present King, [18] he, at Ramsey and against the King's peace, wandered about at night and [listened to conversations in the house of] Philip Wiayl of Ramsey. [19]

17

(Acquittal.) Indictment of John Shelford of Ramsey, tailor, [for theft], in that, at various times during the fifty-first year of King Edward III and in the first and second years of the present King, [20] he, at Ramsey, feloniously stole diverse parcels of linen cloth from various men of Ramsey and Warboys worth 12 d. and dyed them different colors, so that they could not be identified.

18

(Acquittal.) Indictment of Robert Outy of Hepmangrove [for theft], in that on or about the feast of St Michael in the first year of the present King, [21] he, in the fields of Ramsey, feloniously stole one [Akerstof] worth 8 d. from Simon Pudifer and beat him, against the King's peace.

19

Indictment of John Brid, baker, for charging too much for bread.

Notes

1. 4 March, 1379.

2. Statute of Gloucester, c. 8 (Statutes of the Realm 2, p. 11). See also: 1 Richard II, c. 3 (Ibid. 2, pp. 1ff), and 23 Edward III (Ibid. 1, pp. 307ff).

3. 22 June, 1377-21 June, 1378.

4. Obliterated.

5. ca. 24 February, 1378.

6. 22 June, 1377-21 June, 1378.

7. ca. 1 August, 1379.

8. 25 September, 1379.

9. ca. 17 May, 1377.

10. ca. 11 November, 1376.

11. Obliterated.

12. ca. 7 May, 1377.

13. ca. 1 November, 1376.

14. ca. 30 November, 1377.

15. ca. 30 November, 1377.

16. ca. 29 September, 1375.

17. ca. 1 November, 1375.

18. 11 November, 1378.

19. MS: ascultavit sub tecto Philippi Wiayl.

20. 25 January, 1377-21 June, 1379.

21. ca. 29 September, 1377.