Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 21, 1418-21
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JOHN SON AND HEIR OF
MILES
DE
STAPULTON
674
Writ for proof of age
‡ 12 Oct. 1420.
[
Smyth].
Teste Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
He claims to have been born and baptized at Wighill in Yorkshire, and by grant from Ralph, earl of Westmorland, to whom they were granted by Henry IV, the lands which Miles de Stapulton held of Henry IV in chief, are in the custody of RichardNorton, who should be warned. Endorsed: he was warned.
York.
Proof of age.
Wighill.
4 Nov. [
Manston].
Thomas
Russell
of Wighill,
Robert
Dryffeld
,
Robert
Hardy
and
Richard
Clerk
, all of Tadcaster,
Richard
Blase
,
Robert
Forster
,
Thomas
Ogilthorp
,
John
Lyle
,
John
de
Sandford
and
Robert
Mortayn
, both of Bilton,
John
de
Bergh
and
Richard
de
Otteley
of Newton say that John is aged 21 years and more and was born at Wighill and was baptized in the church there on 8 Sept. 1399. They know for the following reasons:
Thomas
Russell, 50, had a daughter Katharine born at Wighill on the same day.
Robert
Dryffeld
, 45, went with Miles to Healaugh to ask
John
Depden, knight
, to be one of John's godfathers.
Robert
Hardy
, 60, rode at Miles's request to Ripon to ask
John
de
Lynton
to be the other godfather.
Richard
Clerk
, 47, rode at Miles's request to Syningthwaite to ask
Agnes de Sheffeld
, a nun, to be John's godmother.
Robert
Forster
, 44, says he had a son called John born on that day and baptized in the church of Healaugh.
Thomas
Ogilsthorp
, 51, had his house at Clifford burnt down.
John
Lyle
, 56, was at Wighill with
Robert
Mauleverer
to speak with John's godfather,
John
Depeden, knight
, and broke his shin there.
John
de
Sandeford
, 51, said that
John
Forster
insulted, assaulted, wounded and badly treated him.
Robert
Mortayn
, 48, was the steward of
John
Depeden, knight
, and held a court at Thorp Arch.
John
de
Bergh, 60, says that he was arrested at Wighill and taken to York castle by order of the king.
Richard
Otteley
, 49, rode from Wighill to the mansion of
Henry
Vavasour, knight
, at Hazelwood to tell him of John's birth and baptism, and Henry gave him 6s. 8d. for his trouble.
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