"During this council, the brother of the earl of Ferrers was slain by night at London, and thrown out from his inn into the mud of the streets, for which deed our lord the king took into custody many of the citizens of London ; among whom there was arrested a certain aged man of high rank and great wealth whose name was John ; he being unable to prove his innocence by means of the judgment by water, offered our lord the king fifty pounds of silver for the preservation of his life. But inasmuch as he had been cast in the judgment by water, the king refused to receive the money, and ordered him to be hanged on a gibbet." [1]
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