‹ E-CIPM 18-1179: CECILY WIFE OF GUY WHITYNTON ›

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[Headed] Of full age, sixteen years and more.

John Bray, esquire , warned by John Brasyer and William Bailly , did not come.

The jurors said that Cecily was born at Leigh on 10 April 1389 and baptised there and they remember because:

Thomas Walton , aged 60, on that day assisted John Preston , the chaplain, in the church after the baptism.

John Walton , 55, went to find John Preston , the chaplain, and made him come to the church, and was himself present.

William Russell of Corse, John Hall and John Colseye , all 60 and more, on that day settled various disputes between themselves and saw the baptism.

John Clervowe , John White and John Hull , all 40 and more, on that day rode towards Gloucester past the church and met Cecily being carried from the church after the baptism in the arms of Margaret Merssh , her godmother.

John Marchall , Walter Hathewey , William Sketeby and Nicholas Ruyhale , all 40 and more, were neighbours of John Brounyng the father, and it was common talk that she was born, and they saw her carried to and from the church to the home of John Brounyng .