Geoffrey Bullynge 1477

[David Boulding]

Does this have any other interesting facts I'm missing or is it a bald statement that John owes Geoffrey?


http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no861/aCP40no861fronts/IMG_0027.htm (see full size  image)

f   27   debt   Kent   Bullynge, Geoffrey   Bocher alias Apilton, John, of Herne, butcher

[Watson]

The plea is that he should pay him the 40 shillings he owes him.  The defendant didn't show up.  I'm not sure about the final bit. I think it says the sheriff was instructed to arrest him, and he was ordered to appear there in October.

[Bookbox]

The final bit …

… the sheriff was ordered to summons him; the sheriff reports that he has nothing etc.;* and therefore he is to be arrested so that he is here within the Octave of the Purification of the Blessed Mary [2 Feb]

          * i.e. nothing within the sheriff’s jurisdiction that could be distrained for the debt

[David Boulding]

Thank you both for your excellent contributions to this. I guessed that the small amount of text said very little.

I am so impressed that there are people willing to be so helpful.

A very happy New Year to you