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John Arundel , kinsman [grandson] and heir of Eleanor Arundel , was born at the manor of Ditton on 1 Aug. 1385 and baptised in St. Mary’s church, Datchet, and he is therefore aged 21 years and more.

Asked how they knew this the jurors said:

William Spelyng , aged 58 years and more, on that day went to the house of John Benet, vicar of Datchet , to ask him to be godfather.

Thomas Neel , 55 and more, carried a torch at the baptism.

Henry Aleyn , 58 and more, was a butler of Margery then Lady Moleyns, lady of that manor, and delivered bread and wine and sent it for the baptism.

John Sperman , 56 and more, on that day was sent to London by Margery Lady Moleyns to discover where John the father could be found.

John Bakere of Colnbrook, 42 and more, in that month took at farm the house in Colnbrook, where he now lives, of William West of that place for 10 years from the ensuing Michaelmas.

William Skynnere of Iver, 59 and more, had a daughter born that day who is now dead.

John Hale of Langley Marish, 41 and more, had a new shop in Colnbrook on that day.

Robert Dastrell , 43 and more, at that time purchased to himself and his heirs a tenement in the parish of St. Mary there by a charter of feoffment.

William Randolf , 45 and more, had a daughter Joan married to John Wellys in St. Mary’s church, Datchet, in the following week.

Walter Clerk of Horton, 51 and more, knows because in that week his wife Isabel was delivered of his eldest son John.

Richard Auger , 54 and more, was in the church and held a cloth for drying of hands after the baptism.

John Fynton of Datchet, 52 and more, was a servant of Lady Moleyns and carried two bottles of wine to the church for the people there to drink.