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Succeeded his brother John De Peyton, who died a minor on Oct. 29, 1444, in the second year of King Henry VI. Thomas De Peyton seized the manor of Esthorp, his mother Grace dying May 6, 1444. He was found her heir to the manor of Messing, which was held of the crown as the honour of Keynes by the services of one knight's fees, also of the manor of Binchall, and the castle, upon the feast of all saints, 1440, in the 18th year of King Henry VI. His age was proved at Cambridge, viz: 22 years, at which time it was sorn by John Welford, that he ws born and baptized at Dry-Drayton in Cambridgeshire. A.D. 1418, many agreeing in the verdict; among whom Robert Chapman alleged, that the day he was born being the feast of St. Valentine thre was a great storm; one knew it by the great wind; anothr broke his leg by a fall from a horse; another for that his wife was buried; another for then his lease was burnt; another fell from a tree and broke his arm; as the several jurors deposed upon their oath. This Thomas was sheriff of Cambridge and Huntington between the 2st and 31st years of the reign of King Henry VI (1443 and 1453), and about the 17th year of King Edward IV (1478) he began to rebuild the church at Isleham, agreeing then with John Waltham, alias Sudbury, free mason for the same, in the chancel of which church he lies interred , having a monument erected there in his memory.
William B.
