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PEDIGREE OF HORTON, OF CATTON. 69 
Wherefore we wih that the said William who was born at Catton, in the 
aforesaid County, and baptized in the Church of the said village, as is reported 
may prove his age in the presence of, etc. And therefore we direct you that | 
on a certain day, and place, which you shall provide for this, you shall take 
the said proof by the oath as well of Knights as of other good and lawful men, 
by whom this proof may be taken and the truth of the said age may be better 
known and enquired. And you shall make known to the aforesaid William 
Waldeffe and Thomas, as they may be there, if they have heard anything 
within their own knowledge or hear said, why the aforesaid William Horton 
is full of age, or that we ought not to restore the said lands or tenements, with 
their appurtenances to him. And that you shall send in without delay the 
aforesaid proof, thus taken to us in our Chancery, under your seal, and the 
seals of those by whom it was made, and this writ. Witness ourselves at 
Westminster the 20th day of May in the seventeenth year of our reign. 
WILuiaAM Horton Prospacio AETATIS, BORN 1 May, 1404, 5 HEN. IV. 
Chancery. Ing. v. m. 17 Hen. VI., No. 65.. Taken 20 June, 1439. 
Probacio etatis Wilii Hortone in brevi domini Regis huic probacioni 
consuta nominati capta apud Repyngtone in Comitatu Derbie vicesimo die 
Junij Anno regni Henrici sexti decimo septimo coram Will’mo Hetone 
Escaetori domini Regis in Comitatu predicto vertute brevis eiusdem domini 
Regis eidem Escaetore directi et huic probacioni consuti per sacramentum Johan- 
nis Hugge senyoris, Johannis Whyttyng, Will’i Jrpe Henrici Ampe, Johannis 
Bayly, Will’i Smythe, Henrici Hukyne, Will’i Maylour, Will’i Jeynkynsone, 
Ricardi Taylour Johannis Pryst et Johannis Lessone inratorum et separatim super 
etatem predicti Will’i Hortone diligentes examinatorum qui dicunt super sacra- 
mentum suum quod predictus Will’mus Hortone natus fuit apud Cattone 
in dicto brevi nominatum primo die Maij Anno regni domini Henrici nuper 
Regis Anglie Avi domini Regis nunc quinto et in ecclesia in eadem brevi 
nominata eodem die baptizatus etatis et fuit viginta et unius annorum et 
amplius primo die Maii Anno quarto dicti domini Regis nunc. 
Et predictus Johannes Hugge etatis sexaginta annorum et amplius hoc 
bene scit quia dicit quod ipse Johannes Hugge perquisivit de Johanne 
Rawlyne sibi et heredibus suis unam virgatam terre cum pertinenciis in 
Cattone predicta eodem die quo prefatus Will’mus Hortone natus et bap- 
tizatus fuit per quod bene recolit quod idem Will’mus fuit predicte etatis 
viginti et unius annorum et amplius. 
Et predictus Johannes Whyttyng etatis quinquagenta et octo annorum et 
amplius hoc bene scit quia dicit quod quidam Robertus filius ejusdem 
Johannis Whyttyng natus fuit eodem die et in dicta ecclesia baptizatus quo 
