His
chattels were [worth] fifteen shillings, for which R. of
Ambresleigh, the sheriff, must account.
38. Elyas of Lilleshall fled to church for the death of a
woman slain at Lilleshall. He had no chattels. He confessed
the death and abjured the realm. Alice Crithecreche and Eva
of Lilleshall and Aldith and Mabel, Geoffrey and Robert of
Lilleshall, and Peter of Hopton were taken for the death of
the said woman slain at Lilleshall. And Alice, at once after
the death, fled to the county of Stafford with some of the
chattels of the slain, so it is said, and was taken in that
county and brought back into Shropshire and there, as the
king's serjeant and many knights and lawful men of the
county testify, in their presence she said, that at night
she heard a tumult in the house of the slain; whereupon she
came to the door and looked in, and saw through the middle
of the doorway four men in the house, and they came out and
caught her, and threatened to kill her unless she would
conceal them; and so they gave her the pelf [booty] that she
had. And when she came before the [itinerant] justices she
denied all this.
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