_Eugene Aram._--Until the year 1834, when considerable reforms took
place in the Court of Exchequer with respect to sheriffs' accounts, a
process called "the Summons of the Pipe" issued into each county,
charging the sheriff with the levy of divers old rents. In that of
Yorkshire I noticed the following entry, which I communicated to Mr.
Scatcherd. I am not aware that it has ever been published. By inserting
it you will relieve me from the necessity of preserving my "note."
"Of the same Sheriff for the issues of waste building in
Knaresbrough, in the said county, in the tenure of Daniel Clarke,
of the yearly value of IIII£i and one undivided moiety or fifth
part of the whole, to be divided into five equal parts of and in a
certain farm called Moat House farm, situate at Wickersley in the
said County, which consists [_here followed particulars_], in the
occupation of Samuel Chipchase, of the yearly value of XXI£i of
the lands and tenements of _Daniel Clarke_ aforesaid, shoemaker,
_outlawed_ at the suit of _Philip Coates_, gentleman, in a plea of
trespass on the case VIII£i III's and VI'cXXXVIII£i V's arrears."
"Philip Coates," says Mr. Scatcherd (_Gleanings_, p. 26.),
"attorney-at-law, a very respectable man, married Clarke's wife's
sister." It is singular that a murdered man should be outlawed after
death and that he should continue to haunt the Exchequer for near a
century afterwards. It is a complete confirmation of the statement that
Clarke was supposed to have absconded, and that no suspicion of foul
play arose at the time of his disappearance.