SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old, as by his Office does appear. He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age, having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation, by taking to Wife Philippe, the Daughter of Sir Ralph, and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne; than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time. ...
