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THOMAS BAYNAM , SON AND HEIR OF ROBERT BAYNAM
145 Writ de etate probanda .† 13 July 1443. [Bate].
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Proof of age [indented]. Gloucester . 21 January 1444. [Delariver].
The jurors swear that he was born at Mitcheldean (Magna Dene ) on the feast of St Nichomedis [ 1 June ] 1422 and baptised on the same day in the church there, and was aged 21 on the same feast, 1443. They know and recall this for the following reasons. John Estcourt, knight , aged 55 and more, saw Richard Wethyr, rector of the church, lift Thomas from the font. Thomas Rous, knight , aged 70 and more, knows because his daughter Katherine married John Yong at Mitcheldean on the same day. Richard Garon , aged 58 and more, on the same day bought a white horse with a black foot for 5 marks from Robert Baynam at Mitcheldean. Richard Kemyll , aged 55 and more, on the same day took at farm a bovate of land in Mitcheldean ( Dene ) from Robert Baynam for 21 years, paying 6s. 6d. yearly. William Pricke , aged 52 and more, carried Thomas in his arms to and from the church. Thomas Hoke , aged 70 and more, knows because his son Edward was born on the same day at Mitcheldean. John Venne , aged 62 and more, on the same day at Mitcheldean was gravely wounded in the shin by an arrow shot by Richard Bonynton . Guy Dobyns , aged 49 and more, rode to Longnor to fetch Joan Karles and brought her to Mitcheldean to lift Thomas from the font. John Halle , aged 55 and more, fell from a black horse at Mitcheldean and broke his arm on the same day. John Mody , aged 62 and more, was espoused to Alice Payn at Mitcheldean on the same day. Walter Bayly , aged 73 and more, carried chrism to the font for the baptism. William Willys , aged 64 and more, was hired by Robert Baynam on the same day to build him a new grange in a tenement at Mitcheldean.
C 139/112/70 mm. 1–2
The saint’s feasts are celebrated on 1 June and 15 September: cf. CIPM, XXIV, 598 for the date given here. In common with the other testimonies, this is derived from a Shropshire proof taken in 1441, CIPM, XXV, 612.