Calendar of Patent Rolls
15 EDWARD III.  1341. July 16.

Writ to John de Loudham, William Giffard, Ralph, do Bockyng and their
fellows, keepers of the peace in the county of Suffolk, reciting that,
by complaint of Richard de Amoundevill and others the king is informed
that although John Mareys of Stowemarche, Richard Soue, Thomas
Chaundeler of Stowemarche, Nicholas Dreye of Hawelee, John Mirable of
Baketon, Stephen Kayish and John le Wryghte, were indicted before them
of felonies and trespasses and some of them were indicted before the
said Ralph within the liberty of St. Edmund of manslaughter and they
several timea charged the sheriff of the county to take and imprison the
persons so indicted until justice should be done on them, the sheriff
still retains them in his company and maintains them from their merited
castigation whereby some of them in Stowemarket church holding
themselves with armed force and some- times passing over to the vicinage
besiege the said Richard and other lieges and grievously threaten them
so that he dare not return to his house in those parts and stay there,
for fear of death to himself and his men, and daily commit other crimes,
while the said keepers of the place apply no remedy, whereat the king
marvels, and commanding them, if this be so, with a sufficient posse to
take the said evildoers without delay and imprison them in the gaol of
St. Edmunds until justice be done on them.