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Writ for proof of age.
13 Feb. 1400. [
Maupas].
Addressed to to Thomas Knolles, mayor and escheator of London.
LONDON.
Proof of age of
Elizabeth
Briene, one of the daughters and heirs of
Guy
de
Briene, knight, junior
, kinsman and heir of William, tenant in chief of
Richard
II
.
Guildhall.
13 March 1400. [
Knolles].
Thomas
Dodyngton
, aged 60 years and more,
John
Holbech
, 62 and more,
John
Clerc
, 50,
John
Assheley
, 50 and more,
Geoffrey
Sutton
, 60,
Lawrence
Dureham
, 55 and more,
William
Hatton
, 55,
Richard
Pyry
, 63,
John
Barnaby
, 50 and more,
John
Reynald
, 56,
John
Pryme
, 58, and
Roger
Asshelyn
, 50 and more, jurors, being duly examined, state that Elizabeth was born in the parish of St. Peter Paul’s Wharf in Queenhithe ward on 13 March 1381 and baptised in the church there two days later.
Thomas
Dodyngton
,
John
Holbech
,
John
Clerc
,
John
Assheley
and
Geoffrey
Sutton
remember because
Guy
de
Briene
dined with them in a house close to that in which Elizabeth was born, and at the dinner they were well and truly informed.
As to the baptism,
Lawrence
Dureham
,
William
Hatton
and
Richard
Pyry
say that at the request of the father they held wax torches beside the font during all the time of the baptism, and so remembered it.
John
Barnaby
,
John
Reynald
,
John
Pryme
and
Roger
Asshelyn
saw a servant of the father carrying some pots full of wine called ‘bastard’ to the church and drank of it there.
Therefore they all say that she was 18 on 13 March.
C 137/19/85 [proof]
C 137/19/91 [writ]
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