1400 JOHN LOVEDAY.
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Parentage and ancestry unknown. He died in 1419 and by his will, bearing date 20 August 1419, he desired to be buried in St. Martin's church, left his dwelling house to his wife Agnes, for life, afterwards to his son Thomas, his properties in St. Nicholas', in Applegate and St. Martin's, he directed to be sold for the payment of his debts, and he left legacies to the guids of Corpus Christi, St. Cross, St. Thomas and St. Katherine in Leic. This wil was proved at Leic. 19 February 1419-20 a copy being entered in the Episcopal registers at Lincoln. Agnes, his relict, perhaps his second wife, who re-married (--) Leyke of Grantham, was living as late as 1451.
"1400. A parliament prorogued from Westminster was held at Leicester. Present-the king and principal nobility of the kingdom" (Staveley quoted by Throsby).
