‹ E-CIPM 26-468: JOHN BATAILLE ›

Holdings

The jurors swear that he was born at Manuden and baptized in the church there on the feast of St Edmund king and martyr [ 20 November ] 1424, and was 21 on 20 November last. They recall this well with reference to the following memories of the day of his birth. William Wodecok of Manuden, aged 50 and more, recalls because John, his first-born son, was buried in the cemetery of the same church. John Tyler of Manuden, aged 48 and more, recalls because Richard, his son, was buried in the cemetery of the same church. Richard Jakelyn of Manuden, aged 44 and more, espoused Margaret, his wife, in the same church. John Alysaundre , aged 46 and more, badly wounded his right hand killing a boar with a knife. Thomas Large , aged 50 and more, recalls because there was a strong wind, and a great oak fell on his barn. John Mershall , aged 54 and more, put John his first-born son to school at Great Hallingbury. John Walle , aged 60 and more, recalls because Margaret his wife gave birth to a son, John, who was baptised in the same church. John Quynton , aged 64 and more, fell from a house and broke his left shin. John Cobbe , aged 66 and more, recalls because Thomas, his son, betrothed (affidavit) Margaret, the daughter of Thomas Sutton , at Manuden, to espouse her. Thomas Bedwell , aged 40 and more, cut his left hand when he was cutting the branches of an ash-tree in Manuden. Nicholas Kyne , aged 62 and more, was feoffed of 1 a. meadow in Manuden by Richard Blofeld . Nicholas Colyn , aged 45 and more, recalls because Adam Roo feoffed him and his heirs of 1 a. wood in Manuden. [Dorse:] Bataille [? 16th cent.]