Writ to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Whereas Walter Touk made a complaint against...

Writ to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Whereas Walter Touk made a complaint against Richard son of Walter de Kelin, John Prat of Retford and John Husee, late coroners of Nottinghamshire, Robert de Tarleton and William de Landeford, clerks of the two coroners, on the grounds that Walter de Kelham, who held land in the vill of Kelham of Walter Touk, was found by a coroners' inquest to have committed suicide on the octave of the Epiphany 1288 and all his goods and chattels due to go the king as a result of the felony were taken into the king's hand by the coroners to the value of £100. Whereupon Richard, Walter's son, bribed the coroners with 10 marks and their clerks with 2 marks to hold another inquest, as a result of which they defrauded Walter of his escheat of lands and tenements and the king of his goods and chattels. The sheriff is therefore ordered to make them appear before the barons of the Exchequer on the quindene of Easter.

Dated Westminster.