John KIRKETON

• General Notes
  •  'Misc. Roll. FF: 12 May 1374 - 7 May 1378 (nos 600-619)', London assize of nuisance 1301-1431: A calendar (1973), pp. 154-163. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk
    
    on Fri. 23 July 1378 the guardian again appears upon the land in the presence of the mayor, recorder, John Pyel, Adam Stable, John Haddele, John Organ, Robert Launde, William Knyghtcote, John Eston, John Vyne, John Hoo, Nicholas Twyford, Thomas Reynham, John Kirketon, William Badeby, John Clivele, John Rote and Adam de St. Ives, aldermen, and expressly acknowledges that the pls.' water used to flow from the kennel in the lane through the midst of his garden, by way of an underground gutter (gutteram subterraneam), and that he had torn up (abracadasse) part of the same gutter and obstructed the rest and narrowed the outlet by an iron grating. And because the interests of the City are involved, and the parties are suspected of fraud and trickery, John Baldok, the mayor's serjeant, is ordered to summon a jury of twelve of the most trustworthy and senior men of the venue that the truth may be ascertained.