Almost a Harry Potter title. This is from Alfred Heales' Records of Merton Priory.
In January 1263, the king's law court heard that:
1) William Vadlet (appropriate name) had sought sanctuary in the church at Merton Priory having killed Richard Crudde. He left the country ('abjured the realm coram Corona', says Heales), and forfeited all his goods.
2) Henry Mitcham stood in the infirmary chapel and 'fessed up that he'd nicked a Priory chalice. He also fled the country (presumably wanting to keep both his hands). He said that William Tooting had aided him.
Heales 139-140.
