Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 21, 1418-21

JOHN STOURTON SON AND HEIR OF WILLIAM STOURTON

876 Writ for proof of age ‡ 14 June 1421. [Wymbyssh]. He claims to have been born and baptized at Stourton in Wiltshire, and by grant from Henry V [26 Sept. 1413; CFR 1413-22, p. 30] the lands and tenements which his father held of Henry V in chief were granted during his minority to William Hankeford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and John Stourton, senior, who should be warned. Endorsed: they were warned by Nicholas Meull and Roger Swalclyff.

Wiltshire. Proof of age. Maiden Bradley. 1 July. [Wayte].

John Clyvedon, esquire , 60 years and more, says that John was 21 years old on 19 May 1420 [sic, ?recte 1421] and was born at Stourton on 19 May 1400 and was baptized in the font of the church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Stourton. He knows because Joan Glyn , midwife to John's mother Elizabeth, came to John Clyvedon 's court at Zeals and announced that William Stourton had had that day at dawn a beautiful first-born son, for which he praised God. The other jurors say the same. They know for the following reasons: John Hugyn, esquire , 58 years and more, was with others at a hundred court held at Mere on 19 May 1400 and John Boneclyf , tithingman of Stourton , told the suit of the hundred of John's birth. He recorded John's birth in the table of contents of his psalter. John Brit, esquire , 61 years and more, was also at the hundred court and heard John Boneclyf tell John Gilbard, steward of the hundred , of William's birth and immediately the steward wrote the date of John's birth in a missal belonging to the church of Mere. William Godewyne, esquire , 62 years and more, was at the hundred court and heard John Boneclyf tell John Wykyng of William's birth. Richard Cressybien , 69 years and more, was with others at a swanimote held in Selwood forest on 19 May 1400 when Nicholas Moul, a servant of William Stourton , told them of John's birth and on behalf of his master asked Edmund Flory, esquire , to be John's godfather. He knows the date from the court rolls. Robert Leveden , 51 years and more, was also at the swanimote held at 9.30 a.m.. He saw Thomas Wodeward , forester there, shoot with an arrow a dog, which was worrying the king's beasts, and hang it from the branch of an oak called `Ryggewith'. Robert Combe , 52 years and more, came to Stourton on 19 May 1400 on the order of Lord Lovel and Holand with a letter for William Stourton containing private business. John Nywman , 53 years and more, carried 2 swans and 12 partridges for William Stourton to be eaten. Robert Kyng , 44 years and more, rode to the priory of Maiden Bradley on 20 May 1400 and was told of John's birth by the prior. John Clyve , 40 years and more, rode with Peter Stantor, esquire , to the Carthusian priory of Witham on 26 May 1400, when his wife's brother John Langgerich , one of the canons, was made prior . John Junnere , 61 years and more, had a son named Thomas born on 16 May 1400. John Luddok , 65 years and more, says that while William Stourton and John Berkele, knight , were hunting at `la Holte de Charthous' on 19 May 1400, William's clerk Gilbert Wyke announced that William had a beautiful first-born son by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Moigne, knight , and all present rejoiced.

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