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dicit quod ipse multociens ibi- pueros baptizavit. & Radulfus 
Capellanus in eius absencia similiter. De tempore. mense. die. 
hora. & presentibus: non aliter recolit: nisi quod toto tempore 
administracionis sue ibidem pueri cum veniebant ad baptismum 
per ipsum & per predictum Radulfum Capellanum baptizati 
fuerunt. sed in quorum presencia non recolit. 
Item Rogatus An solempnizetur ibi baptismum solempnibus 
diebus ad hoc deputatis: dicit quod sic. & hoc scit quia pro- 
cessionaliter ibi fontem benedictus. Dicit & quod solempnizatur 
ibi baptismum in vigiliis Pasche. & Pentecostes. & dicit quod 
deus ipsos dies deputavit ut credit ad solempnizandum dictum 
baptismum. nec scit quo tempore. quo mense. quo die. quo hora. 
quibus presentibus : dicti dies ad hoc deputati fuerunt. nec recolit 
quociens vidit ibi solempnizari baptismum. 
Item Rogatus. An dicta Ecclesia pertineat ad Decanum & 
Capitulum Lichefeld: dicit quod sic. Et hoc sit quia Willelmus 
de Cestr’ Canonicus Lichefeld cui ipse Testis apud Tideswell 
deserviebat bona dicte Ecclesie ibidem ut procurator Decani & 
Capituli Lich’ collegit. 
TRANSLATION. 
Evidence of witnesses brought forward on the part of the Dean 
and Chapter of Lichfield on . . . day. 
Evidence of witnesses brought forward and sworn on the part of 
the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, on Friday next after the 
Epiphany of the Lord, continued on the Wednesday next following, 
in the year of our Lord 1252, before (Walter) then Warden of the 
Friars Minors of Leicester, and Adam, Archdeacon of Chesters 
Commissioners appointed by our lord the Pope, in the Causes 
- which they are engaged in between the said Dean and Chapter 
of Lichfield on the one part, and the Prior and Convent of Lenton 
on the other part, there being a third judge, viz., the Prior of the 
Friars Preachers of London, legally excused on good ground. 
James de Bakepuz being proctor of the said Dean and Chapter of 
Lichfield, personally providing and bringing forward the said wit- 
nesses, and Peter de Vertpellat’, proctor of Master Guido, Rector 
