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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 128

"Probatio AEtatis" of William De Septvans
from the Surrenden Collection 

   "By pretext of which writ, the foresaid John, Thomas, and William, proceeded to inquire concerning the premisses, and took a certain inquisition, and divers evidences, in order to ascertain the truth of the age of the foresaid heir, of which inquisition and evidences, the tenour follows in these words:—
   "' An Inquisition held before John de Cobham, of Kent, Thomas de Lodelowe, and William Waure, assigned by commission of our Lord the King, to inquire concerning the age of William, son and heir of William de Septvans, Knight, deceased, who held of the said King, of his crown, in capite; and to do and fulfil certain other things contained in the Commission of our Lord the King, at Canterbury, on the Tuesday next before the Feast of St. George, in the fortieth year of our said Lord the King, by the oath of John de Northwode, Knight, Thomas Apuldrefeld, Knight, Thomas Chicche, Knight, Richard atte Lese, Knight, John de Brokhull, Knight, John Barry, William Apuldrefeld, Thomas Colpepir, Henry Apuldrefeld, senior, Henry Auger, Fulco Payforer, and Geffrey Colpepir, who say, upon their oath, that the foresaid William, son and heir of the foresaid William, will be twenty years old, and no more, on the feast of St. Augustin the Doctor, next coming; and they say that twelve men, whose names are stitched to this Inquisition, were summoned before John de Tye, escheator of our Lord the King, in the county of Kent, at Canterbury, at a certain day now past, to prove the age of the said heir, of which men three, to wit, Alexander Haven, John Pikeryng, and Thomas Ropere, were not sworn before the said escheator, and so they say that the foresaid proof was neither rightly nor legitimately made, as they understand.
   "' They also say that William de Chirchehull, Clerk, was the first procurer, deviser, and instigator to the said William, son of William, at Canterbury, to make suit for his lands and tenements, to be amoved from the hands of our Lord the King, and to prove his age; and after the return of the inquisition " de aetate probanda," the said William de Chirchehull and Luke de Whetynden sued to have theforesaid lands and tenements out of the King's hands, inasmuch as the said Luke was retained of the counsel of the said William, son of William.
   "And they say that the said William, son of William, had the mediety of the manor of Aldyngton,1 in the county of Kent, whichis worth ten pounds per annum; and certain marshes, called Lokelyng and Hersyng, in Iwade, worth forty shillings per annum; in which mediety is a certain wood, worth one hundred pounds to sell, which the said William, son of William, occupied from the time when our Lord the King removed his hand therefrom, to the Feast
    1 i.e. Aldington Septvans, in Thurnham.

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