Robert HENDY died 1396 at Abbots Pool (General)

by dink999, Sunday, January 20, 2013, 17:38 (4331 days ago)

From the Gloucester Citizen 18 January 1897

Subsequent to the inquest conducted by him at Maisemore on Saturday afternoon, the Coroner (Mr. M. F. Carter), read an interesting record he had come across relating to an inquest held " in the lordship of Maisemore" in 1396, in the twentieth year of the reign of Richard II, on the body of one Robert HENDY, found in a place called Abbots Pool.

There was no direct evidence, but it was concluded that the man, who was ill with a fever, had gone down to the pool to drink, and that being in a weak state, his arms failed to support him, he had fallen in and so been drowned.

Mr Carter read out the names of the jurymen, who were collected from the parishes of Maisemore, Hartpury and Over and commented on the fact that a juryman of 1396 and a coroner of 1897, at inquests in the same parish, both bore the name CARTER.

None of the names, however, as far as could be ascertained were extant in the parish of Maisemore, though the appellation of STYLE (or STYLES) was remembered to have belonged to a deceased inhabitant, and it was mentioned that there was a BLAKE in the adjoining parish of Hartpury.