Research Notes:
1383 Richard Payn, Mayor of Schaftesbury, witnessed a charter. [1]
Charter 12. John Tonprest of Shaftesbury grants to Robt. Vode and Cristine his wife, a tenement betw. John Gwoch's late messuage on S., and Robt. Tyncker's late messusage on E., in S. Laurence's parish. Witness Rd. Payn, Mayor, Thos. Seward, Nich. Hardyne, John Haselm', Roger Pyion, Simon ____, Rd. Goldsmhyt, K.'s Bailiff. At Schaftesbury, —day before Conv. S. Paul, 7 (?) Rd. II.
[1] Charles Herbert Mayo, The Municipal Records of the Borough of Shaftesbury (Sherborne: J. C. Sawtell, 1889), 76, [HathiTrust].