1474 Richard Lane, son of Ralph and Joyce Lane, was baptized on 24 June 1474 according to the jurors who testified at his proof of age inquisition. "1234. Richard Lane, son and heir of Ralph Lane. Writ de Aetate probanda 7 Feb., probatio aetatis Monday after the feast of St. Ambrose the Doctor, 12 Hen. VII. A jury panel, and a writ from the Escheator to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, dated 26 Feb., 12 Hen. VII, requiring him to have the said jurors present at Brewode on the Saturday after St. Bede the Bishop [25 May 1497] then next, are appended to the King's writ. Staff. He was 21 years old and more on the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr last [29 December 1496], as the jurors well know; thus Thomas Peyto, gent. (aged 50 and more), recollects that he was present in the church of the parish of Brewod on the morrow or the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 14 Edw. IV [24 June 1474], and saw when Robert Gifford, esq., and Christine Cresset baptized the said Richard Lane; William Walhouse says that he was sent by the said Ralph Lane, on the said morrow of St. John, for Elizabeth, Prioress of the black nuns of Brewod, to be godmother to the said Richard; William Siche (aged 60 and more) well remembers that the said Richard is of the full age of 21 and more, because a certain field called 'Prestruddynge,' lying in the fee of Brewod, late part of the lands of the said Ralph Lane, was sown with Lenten grain the said day and year when the said Ralph Lane father of the said Richard died, &c. It is stated in the writ that the said Richard alleged himself to have been born at Bruwod, co. Staff., and to have been baptized in the church there; and that his lands of inheritance were in the custody of Edward Burton, by grant from King Edward IV. C. Series II. Vol. 11. (98.)" [1]
[1] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Vol. 1 (London: HMSO, 1898), 550, [GoogleBooks].