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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 1  1858  page 132

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

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 to

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