And afterwards he offers the king twenty
shillings that this action may be put before Sir Geoffrey
FitzPeter [the Justiciar]. Pledge for the twenty shillings,
Richard of Hinton.
33. The jurors say that Hugh, son of Walter Priest, was
outlawed for the death of Roger Rombald at the suit of
Robert Rombald, and afterwards returned under the
[protection of the] king's writ, and afterwards was outlawed
for the same death on the appeal of Geoffrey, Thurstan's
son. The county therefore is asked by what warrant they
outlawed the same man twice for the same death, and says
that of a truth in King Richard's time the said Hugh was
outlawed at the suit of one Lucy, sister of the said Roger,
so that for a long time afterwards he hid himself; and at
length he came into the county [court] and produced letters
of Sir Geoffrey FitzPeter in the form following: "G.
FitzPeter etc. to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, greeting,
Know thou that the king hath pardoned to Hugh, son of the
priest of Grafton, his flight and the outlawry adjudged to
him for the death of a certain slain man, and hath signified
to us by his letters that we be aiding to the said Hugh in
re-establishing the peace between him and the kinsfolk of
the slain; wherefore we command thee that thou be aiding to
the said Hugh in making the peace aforesaid, and do us to
wit by thy letters under seal what thou hast done in this
matter, since we are bound to signify the same to the king.
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