Roger Hansard servant of Winde Gate wounded Ralph Underside of Hamsterley and he subsequently died. iudicum, exigatur per sectum curie (outlawed).
Hueloc of Hamsterley died suddenly in Hamsterley field; his wife Syerith was the first to find him: she came and is not suspected. Death by misadventure. And the inhabitants of Hamsterley, And William Dene, Lambert Lambert’s boy, and Robert son of Agnes buried him without coroner: therefore liable.
Two sons of Ada the priest of Darlington robbed Robert son of William of Hamsterley in Morhil moor: they were afterwards hanged.
Richard Stagge and John Gamellus, his brother of Unesleie were taken for the theft of 6 sheep which belonged to John of Hamsterley; and John is dead and is suspected, and Gamellus is not suspected: therefore acquitted and inquiry is to be made about the said John’s cattle.
(Contributed by Mavis Brown-Humes)
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