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THOMAS SON AND HEIR OF THOMAS FRAMBALD
996 Writ for proof of age. ‡ 8 Dec. 1403 [Maupas].
BEDFORDSHIRE. Proof of age…. 1403–4 (5 Henry IV) [Bedeford].
The jurors say that Thomas the son was born at Battlesden on 17 June 1381 and baptised there on the same day, and is now aged 22 years and more. Paul Hereford , aged 60 years and more, 1st juror … William Haukyns , 52 and more, Richard Ballard , 51 and more, and …, 56 and more, remember because they were attending the court of Thomas the father as jurors when the birth was announced. Nicholas Bylmyn , 60 and more, Adam Hert , 50 and more, John Bowebrek , 54 and more, and Simon Pekham , 55 and more, say that Thomas the father asked the then rector to write the day and year of the birth in a martyrology, and so it is now recorded and they know the date. Thomas Steer , 50 and more, John Ballard , 52 and more, Robert Porton , 53 and more, and Richard Graunt , 56 and more, say that Thomas the father let to farm a several pasture called ‘le Overle’ to them, and told them of the birth when making the indenture, and they went to the church for the baptism.
C 137/45/48 mm. 1-2
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