County: Middlesex
Code: D4198#1
Reference: London, London Metropolitan Archives: CLA/024/01/02/040, membr. 16r, item 1
Function: Affidavit
[Latin: Nono die Julij Anno regni Regis henrici quarti post conqm̕ septimo̕] [Latin: ] J John Osbarn̕ know-
leche here by-for yow and fully bere wytnesse as J wille answere a-for god and mon on alle manere perille that
may befalle to body or to sowle / that y the same John Osbarn̕ in the age of Syxtene wynter beyng wt
my fader John Osbarne that tyme Conestable of the Castelle of Dunsterre and Styward of the same
lordship and beyng a chyld att scole seyghe and herde / and was ther present whan Sire John the lord
Mohun enfeffed william Fordeham and Maude of Burton̕ of the same castelle and lordship of Dunsterre
and other maners lygyng ther-too in fee symple and here-vpon was a liuere of Seysyn y-made to the same
william and Maude by Robert Parnecote and william howthorp by vertue of a lre of attorne ther
opynly i-redde att which tyme the same lord Mohun was atte Tychefeld and my lady his wyf
atte Beneham a towne of the Abbotes of Olyue And att the same tyme of lyueree ther were twey children
in the same Castelle and weren bore oute and broght to Beneham a-forsayd to her moder that was
the Contesse of Salesbury that now is and here suster that Meneresse aftir that And with-in a four-
tenyght or thre wekes after that / the forsayd william and Maude comen in propire persone to Dunsterre and
made a dede of feffement to the same lord Mohun and Johne his wyf / and to the heirs of here twey
bodies frely bygetyn / And deliuered hem fully seysyn afore alle men of the forsaid castelle / lordship and
maneres att whiche tyme alle men that there were / were glad that the children shuld been enherited
And that alle this is sothe J wille do to sothe vpon what book or relik that ye wille do come afor
me and also sette herto my sele of myn armes / Jn witnessyng of verray trowthe and in more opyn
proue herto i haue sett my sele a-forsayd / J-wryten att london̕ in the parissh a-forsayde the ix day of
Juylle the yeer of the regnyng of kyng harry the fourthe after the conquest seuenethe ~~~