Abbot that now is, and the Prior of the said house, and a
Doctor of Decrees, and other enough, monks of the same
house, are ready to prove, on their oath, when it shall please
the King,
"The third evidence they have: there is one Sir
John. Frebody, parson of the church of Bocton, who was treasurer
to Mr. Thomas Daldon, who was the other godfather of the
infant, by whose account it appears, that he delivered to
the said Mr. Thomas Daldon, his lord and master, a silver cup and
ewer to give to the said infant, the which he gave to the said
infant on the morrow of the feast of St. Austyn aforesaid, in
the twentieth year of the King that now is.
"As by the record and process thereof held, and returned
into the Chancery of our Lord the King, may more plainly appear.
"And whereas our Lord the King was informed that the said
William (after that the lands and tenements which are of his
inheritance, and which by reason of his minority were in the King's
hands, were delivered to the said William, out of the King's
hands,
by pretext of the foresaid proof,) alienated a large part of the
said
lands and tenements to divers persons, and bound himself to many
persons in divers sums of money and annual rents, as well by
letters
of statute merchant, as by other divers deeds enrolled among the
Rolls of the King's Chancery: He caused the foresaid record and
process (as well for the indemnity of the said King, lest he
should
lose the custody of the foresaid lands and tenements by the said
deception, as of the foresaid William, lest during his minority he
be
disinherited) to come into his Parliament, held at Westminster, on
the morrow of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the fortieth
year of our said Lord the King; which record and process, and the
inquisition
and evidences aforesaid, being shown, read, and examined
before our said Lord the King, the prelates, and magnates, and
commonalty
of the kingdom of England in the said Parliament; the
said William, son of William de Septvans, being there in person,
it
appeared to the whole Parliament, that the said William, son of
William, was not of full age, as is contained in the foresaid
proof;
whereupon it was considered in the said Parliament that that proof
was of no value or effect, and that all the lands and tenements,
with
their appurtenances, which belonged to the said William de
Septvans,
father of the said William, son of William, and which, by reason
of
the minority of the said William, son of William, the heir of the
said William de Septvans, were taken into the king's hands, arid
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