Obligation by John Roclife and John Sothill

46 21 March 1482

Obligation by John Roclife and John Sothill, esqrs, in £2,000 to Joan
Plompton, widow, and Robert Plompton, jnr, esq., their executors or
legally appointed attorneys, payable at Pentecost next after the date of
thses presents, to which obligation they, for themselves, their heirs and
executors affixed their seals, 21 March 1482. Condition,¹ that they and
all those having right or title through Margaret, wife of John Roclife
and Elizabeth, wife of John Sothill, daughters and heirs of William
Plompton, esq., of and in all and singular the lordships, manors, lands,
tenements and hereditaments with appurtenances, of which William
Plompton, kt, was seised, are to stand and obey the arbitration and
judgement of the Lord Richard, duke of Gloucester, Henry, earl of
Northumberland, William Parr, James Harrington and Hugh Hastings,
kts, John Vavasour, sergeant-at-law, Robert Sheffeld, William Eland,
Miles Metcalf and John Dawney, arbitrators, chosen indifferently by
the parties.

     They John Rocliffe, John Sothill and others having right or title are
to hold and adhere to the ordinances of the arbitrators, provided they
be given in writing and sealed with their seals before the feast of
Pentecost next after the above date, otherwise the obligation is to be
void and of no effect.

[Latin]

[Copyist’s note.] This bond hath 2 seales att the copying the 23 day of
July 1616.

[CB, 629]

     ¹ On 14 Feb. 1483 the condition was altered to hold to the award to be given in writing
by Edw. IV before 7 July next, but his death, 9 April 1483, supervened and the bond
was renewed 12 Sept. 1483, and judgement was given 16 Sept. 1483, CB, 720, 721.