Evidence given by Robert Littester

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Title
Evidence given by Robert Littester
Reference
WYL655/3_CB, 631, p. 147-148
Date
13 February 1468
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Kirby, Appendix II, item 30
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

30 13 February 1468

 

Evidence given by Robert Littester, aged 40,1 chaplain to Sir William
Plompton, kt, before the official of the civil court at York to the effect
that about 11 years previously he had accompanied Sir William as far
as Skipton-on-Swale when the latter was riding to a muster called to
meet a threat from the Scots. Before they parted Sir William revealed
to him the secret of his marriage to Joan Wintringham, asserting that
she was indeed his true, married wife, and charging him with the duty
of testifying to the legality of the marriage when called upon to do so,
should Sir William chance to die in battle.
[English]
[Copyist’s note.] This deed hath a seale att the copying the xxvth day
of July 1616.
[CB, 631, transcript Stapleton, lxxiv.]

 

     1 The testimonies of Richard Clerk, parish clerk of Knaresborough, and John Croft
who were present at the wedding in St John’s church, Knaresborough, were given 6 July
1472, CB, 682, (transcribed Stapleton, lxxvi–vii).