‹ E-CIPM 19-341: ROBERT SON AND HEIR OF WILLIAM BARDE ›

The jurors say that Robert Barde of West Lutton was born at West Lutton on 25 April 1384 and baptised in the chapel there on the same day, and therefore he was aged 21 years and more on 5 May last . This they remember for the reasons given:

Robert Vavesour of Rudston was retained that day by Sir Henry Percy to serve with Richard II in Scotland.

William Paulyn of Hunmanby: on that day his wife Margaret had a son, who died three days later.

William de Pokethorppe : about Easter of that year, 1384, the patron of the church of Weaverthorpe and of the chapel of West Lutton gave a whole vestment of green silk for the souls of his late father and mother.

Thomas Clerke that day paid John Carpenter of Malton at the house of William Barde the father £13 6s.8d. for the building of a hall and chamber.

John Paulyn was disseised of his free tenement and 4 a. arable and meadow in Hunmanby by Robert del Spence on the Sunday before that day.

Thomas Westby of Lowthorpe was arrested immediately after the baptism at the suit of Robert Sledmer , godfather of Robert Barde , on a plea of trespass by a servant of Gerard Husflete , then sheriff of Yorkshire.

John Spoford : on the following Monday Robert Warde , father of his wife Joan, enfeoffed William Barde and others in a messuage and garden in Lowthorpe for a settlement on John and Joan Spoford and their heirs and assigns.

Thomas de Mapylton : on 1 May next after that 25 April Robert Rede, prebendary of York , who was rector of Weaverthorpe , resigned for an exchange, and Thomas Garton was inducted and instituted.

John Gryme : on 18 Aug. in that year as he was climbing a ladder to his dovecot at Burton Fleming for doves to send to Agnes mother of Robert, long before she was churched, he fell from the ladder, near the top, broke his right arm and was badly crushed.

John Fitzhugh : on the day that Agnes was churched Joan mother of Alice his wife died and he succeeded to all her lands in Burton Fleming in right of Alice.

William Wylkynson : on the Sunday following the birth Robert Sledmer , godfather, and William Barde the father, joint owners of a ship bringing coals from Newcastle upon Tyne, lost her at sea near Whitby in a great storm.

Thomas Martyn : on 23 April 1384 the church of Weaverthorpe, of which the chapel is a member, was polluted by blood shed between John Webbe and William Belle of Weaverthorpe, and was reconsecrated by the suffragan of Alexander Nevyll, archbishop of York , on the day of the birth.