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The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
The jurors found all the defendants not guilty except William Hamelyn, and fined
Philip 10d for “for a false claim”. William Hamelyn, however, was guilty of everything
except breaking Philip’s arm (one wonders whether they thought the arm wasn’t
broken but the ribs were or that person or persons unknown were responsible?) and
William was sentenced to prison. Philip was awarded damages of 40s. A year later, in
the commission court of September 1306, William was back in trouble:
“William Hamelyn of Devizes with others unknown, for breaking the
bishop of Salisbury’s park at Poterne and thence carrying away a
doe against the peace” 22
William didn’t turn up – later on in that year he was one of the people that the sheriff
of Wiltshire, John de Gerberd of Odstock 23 was ordered to catch and hold because
they hadn’t appeared to answer similar charges, including one William Poyntz. 24
22 Pugh RB (ed) (1978) Wiltshire Gaol delivery and Trailbaston results WRS vol XXXIII in
the section Indictments of Wiltshire done at Wilton before W Martyn, H Spigurnel, and their
fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that county, Friday the morrow of Michaelmas 32
Edw I [30 Sept 1306]
The same event was referred to in a record for a court for Swanbrugg, Bishop’s Rouborough,
Bishop’s Cannyng and Remmesbury, no 970 p 147, where the charges read William Hamelyn of
Devizes and Robert Bysshop of Bromham for breaking the Bishop of Salisbury’s park at
Poterne and there hunting and taking a doe
This would have been Bishop Simon of Ghent (1297-1315), the earliest Bishop for whom
registers survive. Payne, N (2002) A Recent Geophysical Survey on the Site of the Residence
of the Medieval Bishops of Salisbury at Potterne WAM 95, p275
23 Jackson, Rev JE (1857) The Sheriff’s of Wiltshire WAM III p197
24 Pugh RB (ed) (1978) Wiltshire Gaol delivery and Trailbaston results WRS vol XXXIII p160
no 1130
To answer for divers trespasses of parks and stews and of conspiracy, on Monday after the
Octave of Michaelmas [10 Oct 1306] as they had failed to appear sucessively on the Monday
after Michaelmas [3 oct 1306] and the octave of Michaelmas [6 Oct 1306] : Henry de Cumb,
Richard, son of Olive, of Bath, Richard atte Mere, Ralph de Cumb, Walter de Westwell,
Nicholas Messager, who was with Henry de Cumb, William Hamelyn of Devizes, John nephew of
the vicar of Stippelavyngton, Simon Turketil, William Poynz son of Nicholas parson of
Bradeford, Walter de Hertrygg, William Baxman the younger and Robert Bysshop of Bromham.
They have no chattels
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