Bond by Thomas Babthorpe

73 29 April 1511

Bond by Thomas Babthorpe, provost of the church of Hemingborough,
to stand in an obligation to William Plompton, esq., of £100, payable
on 24 June 1511. Condition: that Thomas Babthorpe and William
Beddell, during the minority of William Babthorpe, shall keep and
perform the judgement of Thomas, Lord Darcy and Marmaduke
Constable, kt, arbitrators chosen by the parties to determine the right,
title and possession of the manor of Babthorpe and the lands and
tenements in Brackenholme and Hemingborough, which William
Plompton claims in right of Isabel, his wife, and of the lands in Lincs
claimed by Thomas in right of the aforesaid William Babthorpe, now
under age, and of all other disagreements and debates between the
parties before the date of this obligation, provided the award, sealed
by the arbitrators, is delivered in writing to the parties before the feast
of Michaelmas next coming, otherwise this obligation shall be void.

[Latin and English]

[Copist’s note.] Copied 23 November 1627, hauing a seale.

[CB, 835]