‹ E-CIPM 18-672: JOHN SON AND HEIR OF RICHARD VYLERS KINSMAN AND HEIR OF SIMON PAKEMAN ›

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Thomas Pachet , aged 50 years, says that John was born at Brooksby and baptised in the church there on 6 May (feast of St. John before the Latin Gate) 1380, and was therefore 21 on the last occurrence of that feast. He knows because Richard his brother was born on that day, and the other jurors know for the following reasons:

John Bret , 48, was sent to Sproxton to John Brabazon, knight , to ask him to be godfather.

William Swayn , 46, married Cecily daughter of Richard Ardern on that day.

William Redley , 41, was present in the church and went to the rectory to fetch salt for the baptism.

John Forster , 49, because his daughter Margaret was born and baptised in the same church on that day.

John Neel , 41, bought 2 a. in the meadow of Brooksby from John Poutrell on that day, and he knows by the date of the charter.

William atte Persones , 61, took seisin of a messuage in Rearsby on that day by the grant by charter of Thomas Nevyll .

Robert de Broughton , 46, buried Ralph his father in the church of Rearsby on that day.

John Poutnell , 42, because his daughter Juliana married James Cotiler of Leicester on that day.

Richard Fraunceys , 41, because Stephen Longulers died on that day and was buried in the church of Brooksby.

John Rontour , 42, because on that day Reynold his son fell into a well in Muston and died, and lay there for three days.

John Brunne , 49, knows because in that year the house of Richard Munceux in Bescoby was totally destroyed by fire.