And Odo defends it all. And that [Osbert] is
maimed is testified by knights sent to see him. Judgment:
let [Odo] purge himself by ordeal of iron because of this
appeal.
11. Wulward of Wadebridge was burgled. And Odo Hay, Lawrence
Smith, Osbert Mediciner, and Benet his son, William Miller,
Robert of Frokemere, and Maud his sister, are suspected of
the burglary by the jurors of the hundred and by the four
nearest townships, which are sworn. Let the males purge
themselves by water under the Assize, and Maud by ordeal of
iron. Roger Morand fled for that burglary, and he was living
in Bodmin, [which town is] therefore in mercy.
12. Robert, Godfrey's son, appeals Philip, William's son,
for that he came on the land of [Robert's] lord Richard
Fortescue, and wickedly and in the king's peace and in
robbery took eight oxen and a mantle, cape, and sword, and
carried them off; and this he offers to prove against him by
his body under award of the court. And Philip comes and
defends all of it word by word. It is considered that the
appeal is null, for the oxen were not Robert's, but
Richard's. The jurors being asked, say that [Philip] did no
robbery to [Richard]. So Richard Fortescue is in mercy for a
false appeal, and let Philip be quit.
13. Peter Burel appeals Anketil of Wingely, for that he
wickedly in the king's peace assaulted him in the field
where he was pasturing his oxen, and beat him, and gave him
four wounds in the head, and in robbery took from him an axe
and a sword; and this he offers to prove against him; but he
shows no wound.
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