This week – 22 January 1307

From Lanercost, Edward I pardoned John of Bassingbourn, the late sheriff of Essex, for letting Hugh Oliphant, a Scottish prisoner, escape from the castle of Colchester while in his custody because “he pursued Hugh so manfully that he retook and lodged him again in the castle where he is now”.

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