Sunday, January 23, 1390 was a day that Ralph Peioun of Wotton (Lincs.)
and his wife most likely never forgot. On this day, their one-year-old son,
Richard, presumably curious and headstrong like most young toddlers his
age, made an unfortunate choice of playthings when he picked up a pair of
shears and wounded himself in the throat, a fatal injury leading to his death
later that same day.