Shannon McSheffrey

@MedievalMcSheff

Professor of Medieval History, Concordia University. Obsessed with sanctuary in England 1400-1550 and with London riots in the early 16th c. Knitster.

Montréal, Québec
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2015.

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    For 2019 I am beginning a new Twitter project: Sanctuary Seeker of the Day. I’ll post a brief vignette of a man or woman who sought sanctuary in England between 1380 and 1557. 1/4

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    WE'RE FRONTPAGE ON !! Keeping this quiet has been SO HARD, but we can finally reveal what we discovered at Lindisfarne this year... a stunning glass boardgame piece from the time of the Viking raids!

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  3. And in the end it seems Wode got to keep all his belongings and maybe even ended up with a new job. TNA, KB 27/1089, rex m. 4; SP 1/71, fo 98 (L&P 5:602).

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  4. And so we're left, though, with a dead clerk, John Mable; looks as if his homicide was successfully managed so that the beginnings of the indictment process through the coroner's inquest were arrested.

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  5. Indeed, Anne Wode could truthfully say that the goods were not in her hands if in fact her husband was back at home and free of pending indictments: under English law it was his property, not hers.

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  6. It seems odd that the forfeiture was canceled by having the king's attorney drop a pending process against the wife of the accused felon (who himself was no longer under indictment), but maybe that was held to be the easiest way to close the file.

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  7. There is no pardon that I can find, so possibly the indictment was just quashed. Not sure, however, that that necessarily quashed the felony forfeiture process, which was a separate thing triggered by Wode's flight (do I have that right ?)

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  8. Assuming that Brother Wode with the matter at Abingdon is the same as the Wode accused of killing Mable & fleeing to sanctuary, this suggests that by the fall of 1532 (~6 months after the event), Wode was out of the woods regarding the felony indictment due to Cromwell's "pains."

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  9. Following this reference to settling Wode's problems is a further favour that Norwych asks of Cromwell: can you arrange (ie talk to the king) to give Wode a position that has just come open in the Exchequer?

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  10. The fact that Norwych calls Woode "brother" several times in the letter suggests that Woode may have also been a lawyer, presumably at Lincoln's Inn, Norwych's own home base (though I can't find Wode in Baker's Men of Court).

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  11. "Not only I but all other his lovers and friends are bounden to geve yow our hartie thankis, also with suche servys and pleasure as may lye in us to doo yet." Thanks, Tom, for getting our friend out of a murder charge! We owe you!

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  12. The first part of the letter seems clearly to refer to Wode's problems: Norwych thanks Cromwell for having "taken pains for my brother Wode in his matter at Abingdon, having brought it unto ... good order."

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  13. Clues about the deal come in a letter written by lawyer (serjeant) Robert Norwych to Thomas Cromwell in Oct. 1532 (a year before the King's Bench clearance of Mistress Wode's troubles).

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  14. The king's attorney simply agreed with her assertion, and the case against her for withholding felony forfeiture was dismissed. On the face of it this appears strange, but it was clearly the result of a deal that had been reached.

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  15. Not surprisingly, these were all alleged to be in Anne Wode's possession. When the case against her came up at King's Bench in the fall of 1533, her attorney (she herself did not appear) stated that she did not have the goods, nor had she ever had them in her possession.

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  16. As has taught me to notice, these goods are listed room by room, in detailed description: Eg "In the hall, painted cloths with Scripture of Laudates, 2 bankers of green say [cloth], 1 banker of red say; 4 cushions, 2 tables, …

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  17. It was in fact Robert Wode's wife Anne who was asked to answer in King's Bench, not for her husband's crime but for the whereabouts of his goods. A detailed inventory of his (fairly considerable) goods was included in the coroner's inquest report.

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  18. The case made its way into King's Bench not because Wode himself was dragged out of the sanctuary but rather because of a tussle over seizure of his goods: when Wode fled the scene of the crime his property was liable for seizure by the crown.

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  19. Unless the records are dated incorrectly, it took a full month (3 Mar to 4 Apr) to convene a coroner's inquest over Mable's body. Why the delay? Did the abbot initially cover up the killing? And omigosh the smell.

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  20. To me that suggests that the abbot abbetted this; he was evidently more interested in protecting Wode than in seeing him face justice for Mable's death. And the next part is also suggestive of the abbot's disinterest in seeing the homicide pursued.

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  21. First Wode fled to sanctuary, not unusual in itself; somewhat unusually, however, the sanctuary to which he fled was Culham, a dependent manor of St Mary's Abbey nearby in Oxfordshire. So - commit homicide in the abbey, and then use the abbey's dependent sanctuary for shelter.

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