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 430 PROCEEDINGS IN THE July said John Hamond and the said Kobert [Kelyng went to Nusshelyng, and when] they came into the place the said Thomas Hargrave was syttyng upon the high benche of the halle [with his sword] drawen, and the said Peter Marmyon was tyed aboute the nekk with a dogges cheyne. . . . And then and ther in the said halle afore vj of the Clokke in the mornyng the said Thomas Hargrave said vmto the said John Hamonde and the said Robert Kelyng : Here is this Peter Marmyon, the mooste [high] traytour [unto the] Kyng hath not oonly in his persone but of his falce and subtill ymagynacion. . . ageynst the Kynges. . . theef that hath robbed me of my goodes, and were not for feare of God he wold [stryke off] his hed. . . . And therunto said the said John Hamond that it was ageynst the lawe. And then the [said Peter Marmyon] promysed hym to make a Relesse of all the Right that he had [in the said Manoir and the landes in] the Counte of Jlampshire, or elles he shuld not have lyved now. [Wherupon] the then the said Hargrave toke his sword in his hand, and said to the said Marmyon these wordes. . . . Wilt thou make the Relesse ? Then the said Marmyon syttyng tyed as it is aboue conteyned . . . [said] I wille [so do] and therupon the said Hargrave commaunded his servant Thomas Gardyner to [fetch] a boke out of,. . And the said Gardyner servaunt to the said Thomas Hargrave toke out of the ... to the said Peter Marmyon : Thou shalt swere vpon this boke that thou shalt make Relesse of the Manoir of Nusshelynge with other landes to me and to myn heires from the and thyn heires and this sealed with the scale of Winchester. And vnder the seal of the Mayor was sealed [the Relesse. And the said Peter Marmyon] leyed his hand vpon the boke and kyssed the boke. And ^ as Recorder of the Cite of Winchester to [refuse bail]^ and he to come with me to Wynchester before you and ther he to knowlegge the Relesse, and ther the said Relesse to be made accordyng to his othe, as he hath made before. And seid ouer these wordes at this tyme : if I wist that this traytor wold not this doo I shuld appeche him of high treason to the Kyng and forthwith hym with myn owne handis in that quarell and to [sic] kille him as a false traytor to the Kyng. And on Wednesday next after the said Monday at Wynchester the said John Hamond said to the said Robert Kelynge that the said Thomas Hargrave brought the said Peter Marmyon to Wynchester as a prisoner before the said John Hamond and other, with a Relesse in his name of the said Manoir and landes to the said Thomas Hargrave and to his heires made, and ther knowlegeyd the Said Relesse before theym for fere of deth to be his dede. And over that the said Robert Kelyng said and deposeth that the said Thomas Hargrave toke alle the goodes and Catalles of the said Peter Marmyon to his ovne vse : and neuer the said Thomas Hargrave toke to the said Peter Marmyon any peny or half peny for the said Relesse. And alle this is true, &c., as I shall aunswere before God. Item, John Newman of thage of Ix yeres seith and deposeth vpon a boke that he was at Nusshelyng the said Monday the yere aforsaid, the missing words must include something like 'then Thomas Hargrave said to John Hamond you'. » These words are very doubtful and are therefore bracketed.
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