And when she came before the [itinerant] justices she
denied all this. Therefore she has deserved death, but by
way of dispensation [the sentence is mitigated, so] let her
eyes be torn out. The others are not suspected, therefore
let them be under pledges.
39. William, John's son, appeals Walter, son of Ralph Hose,
for that when [William's] lord Guy of Shawbury and [William]
had come from attending the pleas of our lord the king in
the county court of Shropshire, there came five men in the
forest of Haughmond and there in the king's peace and
wickedly assaulted his lord Guy, and so that [Walter], who
was the fourth among those five, wounded Guy and was
accessory with the others in force as aid so that Guy his
lord was killed, and after having wounded his lord he
[Walter] came to William and held him so that he could not
aid his lord; and this he offers to deraign [determine by
personal combat] against him as the court shall consider.
And Walter comes and defends all of it word by word as the
court etc. It is considered that there be battle [combat]
between them. The battle [combat] is waged. Day is given
them, at Oxford on the morrow of the octave of All Saints,
and then let them come armed. And Ralph [Walter's father]
gives the king a half-mark that he may have the custody of
his son, [for which sum] the pledges are John of Knighton
and Reiner of Acton, and he is committed to the custody of
Ralph Hose, Reiner of Acton, John of Knighton, Reginald of
Leigh, Adam of Mcuklestone, William of Bromley, Stephen of
Ackleton, Eudo of Mark.
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