[Sidenote: 1479 / AUG. 26]
Declaration by Robert Mill, John Hobbes, John Claryngton, Thomas Davy,
John Brygge, John Watyr, and William Parson, tenants of the manor of
Marlyngford, before the Abbot of St. Benet’s, John [R]adclyf
Fywater,[19-2] Mr. John Smyth, Robert Ippeswell, William Lomnor, John
Paston, Esq., William Yelverton, senior, John Coke, alderman, William
Bastard, gentleman, and William Fuller, that they have always held of
the manor in the name of Agnes Paston, daughter, and one of the heirs of
Edmund Bery, Knt., and in her name only, till Saturday [21 Aug.] before
St. Bartholomew Apostle, 19 Edw. IV., when her son, William Paston,
desired them to attorn to him without showing writing or evidence.
Done in the parlour of John Cooke, 26 Aug., 19 Edw. IV. _Signed_:
‘Thomas, Abbot of Seynt Benettes of Hulme.’--‘J. Radclyff
Fytzwauter.’--‘John Smyth, clerk.’--‘Robert Ipeswell.’--‘Will.
Lomnor.’--‘W. Yelverton.’--‘John Cook.’--‘Will’m Bastard.’--‘Will.
Fuller.’
[Footnote 19-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 19-2: John Radcliff, son and heir of Sir John Radcliff,
called Lord Fitzwalter in No. 450 (vol. iii.). He was summoned to
Parliament as Lord Fitzwalter in the first year of Henry VII.]
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