Hit is to be remembyrd that late was enqueryd of us Symkyn Skynner of Lappeworth...

Hit is to be remembyrd that late was enqueryd of us Symkyn Skynner of Lappeworth and of John Parsons of the same tenauntes unto Sir William Catisby, knyght, whether ever we payd eny rent unto John Brome of Warrewyk fathir unto John Brome of Baddisley for suche landes and tenementes as we hild in the sayd towne of Lappeworth parcell of the landes and tenementes callyd Bromes there or evir knewe that the same John Brome fathir hedde ever astate or possession in the sayd landes and tenementes. We sey and confesse by this owre writyng to all suche persons to whome it shall come to that we neythir payd peny of rent eythir to the handes of the sayd John Brome fathir or to the handes of the sayd John Brome sone but to suche as were theyr rent gethirres. whethir to the behowfe and use of the fathir or the sone in the lyfe of the fathir or to eny othir standyng enfeffid theryn we knowe not. And ovir this we sey that we remembir not the state and feffement that was made of all the sayd landes and tenementes callyd Bromes by Thomas Cokkes one of the feffees to John sumtyme Duke of Bedford in the same landes and tenementes to whom the sayd feffement and astate was made and possession of the same delyveryd whethir to the sayd John Brome fathir or to the sayd John Brome his sone or to eny othir to eny of theyr behouvis as we shull unswere to fore godde at the dredefull day of dome. Gevyn at Lappeworth the iiijth day of June the vijte yere of Kyng Edward the fourthe.' Warwickshire.