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THOMAS SURTEYS, KNIGHT , SON AND HEIR OF ALEXANDER SURTEYS

530 Writ for proof of age.‡ 20 July 1401. [Maupas]. Alexander held of Richard II. The lands are in ward of Margaret Surteys , Thomas's mother, who should be warned, by grant of Richard II.

NORTHUMBERLAND. Proof of age. Newcastle upon Tyne castle. 28 Oct. [Hardyng].

John Corbet , aged 54, Adam de Seeton , 53, William Holgrave , 60, William Hydewyn , 62, Robert de Hedle , 49, and Robert de Belyngham , 48, duly examined, say that Thomas was 21 years of age on Monday 18 April. This they know because they were at Durham for an inquisition with the sheriff about the death of John Boukyn of Gateshead when William Bowes, knight , came and told them that Alexander Surteys had a son born, and baptised in the church of Dinsdale on Tees, and that Thomas S [ sic ] was godfather, and he and others were there; and by the date of the inquisition in the custody of the coroner, William de Chestre , they are sure of his age. William Benet , 48, Robert Heburn , 51, William de Wodeburn , 43, John Prestewyk , 47, John Bekynton , 55, and John Yongare , 45, say that Alice wife of William Benet was in Alexander’s house at Dinsdale on Tees when Thomas was born, and afterwards in church where she was godmother. William Bent and a certain John Pykdene took Thomas Surteys to Silton in Yorkshire to be in the care of a nurse there on the morrow of Trinity, when he was aged 6 weeks. Also they say that John de Dalton, chaplain of Alexander, wrote the name and date of Thomas’s birth in a missal in the church, and this writing proves his age. It is also proved by the inquisition on Alexander in Northumberland [ CIPM XV, no. 411].

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