Certificate by Robert George, rector of the church of Bagotesmorton, and Sir Edmund...

Certificate by Robert George, rector of the church of Bagotesmorton, and Sir Edmund Huye, chaplain of Wyke nigh Perschor, that they had published and testified that one Emma Calawe, late the wife of John Hayward, the elder, of Wyke, aforesaid, as a daughter of iniquity, on the eve of the Assumption of the B.V.M. 18 Richard II, about midnight, seeing the said John her husband at death's door and deprived of memory and speech, etc. sent the said Edmund after Thomas Sampson, chaplain, similarly a son of falsehood, etc. and so the said Thomas with the consent and assent of the said Emma and of John her son, wrote a false charter of the lands and tenements of the said John Hayward, to wit that the said John should give to the said Emma the said lands and tenements for ever, together with a tenement in 'le Brugge Stret' of Perschor, etc. and the said Emma, Thomas Sampson and John took a silver button from her hood and put it in the hand of the said John, and so took his hand with the button and laid it on the false deed; all which was falsely done, the said John being insensible, and to the disherison of his heirs, as appears by the testimony of the said Edmund, who was present; and in further proof John Atherston, esquire, of Wyke and the said Sir Robert George, on Sunday the morrow of the Assumption in the said year, came to the said house and questioned the said Emma and John the son, etc. who denied the said deed and held it for void, etc. In witness whereof, etc. Worcestershire. At foot: Item, the said John, the heir, was bidden by Thomas Cru, esquire, to enter the said tenement in 'le Brugge Stret' in Perschore to hold and occupy by hereditary right; and was so bidden in the house of the said Thomas Cru, the last day of February, the feast of St. Oswald the Bishop and Confessor, 5 Henry V.