bringer herof in his name, one buk of this season: to be taken of our gifte within our Forest of Blakmore, any restrainte or commaundement to you directed to the contrary herof notwithstanding. And thise oure letters shalbe your sufficient warrant animpst us in that behalve. Yeven under oure signet at my Lordes Castell of Wyndesore the xix day of August the xxj yere of my said lordes Reigne.
To our trusty and welbeloved the maistre fforster of oure fforest of Blakmore, and to all other fforsters and kepers there in his absence, and to every of tham.
294. MARY BARANTYNE TO SIR WILLIAM STONOR [13 NOV. 1481]
John Barantyne of Little Haseley, Chalgrove and Churchill, son of Drue Barantyne by Jane, daughter of Sir John Wroughton, married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Stephen Popham. He died on 30 June, 1474 (Chancery Inq. p.m., Edward IV., file 50, no. 36). On 5 Aug., 1475, Richard Frebodie and others were accused of having abducted Elizabeth, widow of John Barantyne, by force from the House of the Friars Preachers in London (Early Chancery Proceedings, 52/3). In his will (dated 28 June, 1474, proved 8 April, 1477) John Barantyne directed that his sons, John the elder, Austyn, and John the younger, and his daughter Anne, should "be ruled and guyded by Elizabeth, my wife," who was to hold all his lands for life, except lands in Chalgrove purchased of Sir Richard Harcourt, and lands in Goldore called Symyuns lands, purchased of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, which John his son and heir was to have (P.C.C., Wattys, 34). All the children were under age; John the elder was returned as fourteen years of age and more in October, 1474. A document in Ch. Misc., 37, iv, 20 gives particulars "for the astate to Marie Barantyne" which are thus summarised: "Of Seyntcleres lond in Chalgrove, lx. s. Symeons in Goldore, lxvj. s. viij. d. And of Atyndon in the paroch. of Thame, lxxiij. s. viij. d. Summa, x. li. For my mastres Marie Barantynes joyntour." From No. 172 it would appear that the marriage took place before 22 Oct., 1476, when John Barantyne's widow seems to have been married to Sir John Boteler; in No. 310 it is implied that it took place before the death of John Barantyne the elder. Mary Barantyne's son William was born on 31 Dec., 1481; John Parson remembered that at his christening there was a fire in the belfry, by which the midwife stripped the child, and that Sir William Stonor, who was godfather, said the child loved it (Cal. Inquisitions, Henry VII., ii, 6). This points to 1481 as the probable
