How it is that Godfathers and Godmothers undertake for Children in Baptism. [ 1422]
AN Infant being born to an estate of Inheritance cannot actually take pos∣session,* 1.1 but is carried to some part of the Land in the Nurses or some other's arms, where the Guardian of the Child taketh Livery and Seisin for its use, and promiseth fealty, and to do such service as the Premises are bound to; All which the Heir (though but then an Infa••••) is fully to make good, when he comes to years of discretion, Thus in the Sacrament of Baptism, the Child is conditionally received into the Congregation of Christ's flock; but the Godfathers and Godmothers answering to the Stipulation of the Church proposed unto them, and undertaking on the Childs part, the Child coming to years of understanding, is engaged to perform in as full a manner to all intents and purposes, as if it had been able to have answered for it self.