And Walter defends all of it by his body.
And it is testified by the coroners and by the whole county
that Hereward showed his wounds at the proper time and has
made sufficient suit. Therefore it is considered that there
be battle. Walter's pledges, Peter of Gosberton church, and
Richard Hereward's son. Hereward's pledges, William his
father and the Prior of Pinchbeck. Let them come armed in
the quindene of St. Swithin at Leicester.
30. William Gering appeals William Cook of imprisonment, to
wit, that he with his force in the king's peace and
wickedly, while [Gering] was in the service of his lord Guy
at the forge, took him and led him to Freiston to the house
of William Longchamp, and there kept him in prison so that
his lord could not get him replevied; and this he offers to
prove as the court shall consider. And William Cook comes
and defends the felony and imprisonment, but confesses that
whereas he had sent his lord's servants to seize the beasts
of the said Guy on account of a certain amercement which
[Guy] had incurred in the court of [Cook's] lord
[Longchamp], and which though often summoned he had refused
to pay, [Gering] came and rescued the beasts that had been
seized and wounded a servant of [Cook's] lord, who had been
sent to seize them, whereupon [Cook] arrested [Gering] until
he should find pledges to stand to right touching both the
wounding and the rescue, and when [Gering's] lord [Guy] came
for him, [Cook] offered to let him be replevied, but this
[Guy] refused, and afterwards he repeated the offer before
the king's serjeant, but even then it was refused, and then
[Cook] let [Gering] go without taking security.
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