The jurors say that he is aged 24 years and more, having been born at Lower Strode in the parish of Netherbury and baptised in Netherbury church on 22 June 1383. Asked how they knew this they gave the following reasons: John Jurdan , aged 50, was present in the church when Walter Burgh, chaplain , baptised him and wrote the date in a missal in the church. William Tracy , 43, came with Sampson, prior of Loders , to the church and the prior was godfather. David Spencer , 54, was present in the church and had a son William born that day. Walter Horseford , 57, came to the church on that day with Alice Goudman , whose daughter Alice he married on the following Monday. William Warmewell , 50, was in the church and that day contracted marriage with Margery daughter of John Warmayn . William Ricard , 60, Hildebrand Knyth , 58, Ralph Stroude , 60, Nicholas Thecher , 50, and Walter Sprot , 66, separately stated that there was a fair at Beaminster next Netherbury on that day, which they were attending when they were asked to bear witness to the age by being present when the chaplain wrote the name and date in the missal of the church. Robert Storke of Beaminster, 50, and John Clerke of Uphall, 47, were in the church to bear witness to the age of John.