PEDIGREE OF HORTON, OF CATTON. 71 
Hortone natus fuit per quod bene recolit quod idem Will’mus fuit predicte 
@tatis viginti et vnius annorum et amplius. 
Et predictus Johannes Pryst etatis sexaginta quatuor annorum et amplius 
hoc bene scit quia dicit quod ipse portavit torciem ante predictum Will’mum 
Hortone quando portatus fuit ad ecclesiam de Cattone predictam ad bap- 
tizandum per quod bene recolit quod Will’mus fuit predicte etatis viginti et 
unius annorum et amplius. 
Et predictus Johannes Lessone etatis sexaginta et sex annorum et amplius 
hoe bene scit quia dicit quod ipse cecidit de equo suo super terram in Cattone 
predicta et tibiam suam fregit eodem die quo prefatus Will’mus Hortone natus 
fuit per quod bene recolit quod idem Will’mus fuit predicte etatis viginti et 
unius annorumet amplius. In cuius rei testimonium Juratores predicti huic 
probacioni sigilla sua apposuerunt. Data die loco et anno supradictis. 
Proof of the age of William Hortone named in the writ of the Lord the 
King sewn to this proof. 
Taken at Repton, in the County of Derby, on the twentieth day of June, 
in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Henry the Sixth, before William 
Hetone, Escheator of our Lord the King, in the aforesaid County, by virtue 
of a Brief of the said Lord the King, directed to the same Escheator, and 
sewn to this proof, by the oath of John Hugge Senior, John Whytting, 
William Irpe, Henry Ampe, John Bayly, William Smyth, Henry Hukyne, 
William Maylour, William Jeynkysone, Richard Taylour, John Pryst, and 
John Lessone jurors, and diligently examined separately upon the age of the 
said William Horton. Who say upon their oath that the aforesaid William 
Horton was born at Cattone named in the said writ on the first day of May, 
»in the fifth year of our late King Henry of England, grandfather of our 
present King, and was baptized in the church named in the said writ, and 
was of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, on the first day of May, in 
the fourth year of the said present King. 
And the aforesaid John Hugge being sixty years of age and upwards, knows 
this well, because he says that he himself John Hugge bought from John 
Rawlyne for himself, and his heirs one virgate of land, with its appurtenances 
in Catton aforesaid, on the same day on which the aforesaid William Horton 
was born and baptized by which he well remembers that the said William 
Horton was of the aforesaid age of twenty-one years and upwards. 
And the aforesaid John Whytting being of the age of fifty-eight and 
upwards, knows this well, because he says that a certain Robert, son of the 
same John Whytling, was born on the same day, and was baptized in the 
said church, on which the said William Horton was born, and by this means 
he remembers well that the said William Horton, etcetera. 
And the aforesaid William Irpe being of the age of fifty-nine years and 
upwards, knows this well, because he says that he himself was made Parish 
