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JOHN SON AND HEIR OF HENRY CONQUEST OF HOUGHTON CONQUEST

665 Writ for proof of age. ‡ 8 April 1402 [Kyngton]. Regarding Henry Conquest of Houghton who held by knight service of the heir of John de Hastynges, late earl of Pembroke, a minor in the custody of Richard II. [Endorsed] Thomas Mewe , who had the wardship, was warned to be at the church of Houghton Conquest on 18 May by Richard Colles , Henry Manton , Thomas Curson and William Eyr of Houghton Conquest.

BEDFORDSHIRE Inquisition and proof of age by 12 good and lawful men all aged 42 years and more.Houghton Conquest. 18 May. [Longevyll].

John Richer says that John Conquest is aged 21 years and more because, as he knows, he was born at Houghton Conquest and baptised in the church there on Thursday 30 June 1379 [ sic ]. Within a quarter of a year after the birth Henry Conquest enfeoffed the rector of Houghton Conquest in all his lands in Houghton Conquest on certain conditions after seisin. Richer was witness of the seisin, and at the dinner afterwards was present with other neighbours, and this was before 7 July 1382 ( citra festum translacionis Sancte Thome martiris citra annum sextum ). Thomas atte Hall of Wootton within a fortnight of the birth married Alice daughter of William Bernevyll . Richard Doncesson , William Catesson , William Straunge and Thomas Querndon on 10 June 1381 set out on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and when they returned to Houghton Conquest six days later they found all their houses and barns in Chapel End there accidentally burnt down. William atte Dene on the day of the birth and baptism was living in Houghton Conquest, and on that day Maud his wife, now deceased, gave birth to his eldest son William, now chaplain of Cardington . John Lyllyngston remembers because in that year he and Elizabeth his wife took certain lands for life by indenture from Henry Conquest in Houghton Conquest, and by the date of the indenture he knows and proves the age. John Typper says that in the year that John was born his father Robert Typper of Wootton died and Henry Conquest allowed him to enter his father’s lands. William Barker and William Weston were in the church on the day of the churching of the mother of John Conquest , and afterwards at the feast with Henry Conquest the father. William Barker was staying with William rector of Marston Moretaine , who was godfather. William Weston was with the rector as bailiff and rode to the feast. There William Barker was a servant in the kitchen and served William Weston in the hall.

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