BEQUESTS RELATING TO ESSEX
EXTRACTED FROM Calendar of
Wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London.
WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES BY A.
BENNETT BAMFORD, V.D.
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ABSTRACT FROM WILLS
1258-9. Monday next before the Feast of S. Gregory,
Pope (12 Mar.)
WILLIAM DE BURGOYNE – His
large house to be sold for payment of his debts … To Isobel, his wife, two
other mansions for life; also quit-rents of land held by William de Dagenham
and others at Writele {Writtle}, so long as she be unmarried; remainder to
Easilda, his daughter. (No date.)
1252. Anno. 44 Henry III.
Monday the Vigil of the Feast of S. Martin (11 Nov.)
WILLIAM DE COLCESTRE, Clerk. –
To the brethren of the Penance of Jesus Christ, a dove-cot with pigeons. To Alice, his sister, and Christina, his
daughter, all the houses formerly belonging to his father. His houses to be
sold and provision made thereout for some honest chaplain, a scholar studying
in the university, to celebrate for the good of his soul, and the souls of
others, and on his ceasing so to study, then for some other student, at the
hands of his executors, and so in perpetuity. (No date.) Christiana Heyrun put
her claim upon a tenement with which the executors of the testator had
enfeoffed the Abbess and nuns of Berking {Barking}, saying it was her right and
inheritance.
1259-60. Monday, the morrow of
the Feast of Conversion of S. Paul (25 Jan.)
ROBERT LE POLETER (Poulterer),
de Arcubus – To the Abbey of Tyletey {Tilty}, his house on Cornhill, purchased
of John Newman, and also his body …. (No date.)
1277. Monday next after the
Octave of the Holy Trinity (31 May)
LAWRENCE DE FROWYK. – To the
Earl of Aubemare, certain rents without Neugate due from the sister of Nicholas
Ferbraz, humbly praying the said earl to remit all arrears. To Laurence his
(son and) heir all the tenements within the City and suburbs of London, saying
to Alice, his wife, the dower, and excepting lands at Haveringes {Havering}
granted to his son John. Also the said
John, shops, etc., in the parish of S. Michael le Quern and certain rents
reserved in London, in case he fail to get possession of the lands and
tenements at Haveringes, granted to him by deed … Sons William and Reginald ….
(No date.)
1278. JOHN DE FROWYK, rector
of the church of Great Horkesle {Horkesley}. – To Nicholas, son of Margaret his
sister, and to Joanna, sister of the said Nicholas, certain quit-rents in the
Goldsmithery of London. To John, son of Peter de Frowyk, one mark quit-rent. To
Stephen, his brother, Katherine his sister, and each child of Walter de Frowyk,
his deceased brother, half a mark respectively.
His houses and rents in Colchester to be devoted to the maintainance of
the chantry in the church of Great Horkesle, and a certain house in the vill of
Great Horkesle, with which he had many years enfeoffed the said Church by
livery of seisin, to be a residence for the chaplain. (No date.)
256 BEQUESTS RELATING TO
ESSEX.
1278-9. PETER DE EDELMETON,
draper.—To Isabella his daughter, a nun at Hingham (Hedingham), for clothing
and shoes, eighteen shillings, annual rent of houses in Kandelwistrete. To
Hawisia his wife, tenements in Estchepe, and his capital mansion in
Athelingestrate in the parish of S. Andrew at Castle Baynard, as also a house
in the parish of S. Giles without Crepelgate, for life; remainder to Peter his
son. Also to his said wife rents in the parish of S. Antonin, for providing
food and clothing for Richard Purcel. (No date.)
1286. ROBERT DE
CORYNGHAM.—Bequests to the following religious houses. and to the Abbot and
convent of Byle, for pittances, etc To
the conduit of Berknyke (Barking) two shillings annual quit-rent of shops in
the parish of S. Olave .... (No date.)
1287. GODFREY ROSAMUND.—To the
Prior and Convent of la Blakemore {Blackmore}, five shillings annual rent in
the parish of All Hallows de Fancherche, on condition that his name be put in
their obituary (martilogio), and his obit kept. (No date.)
1288. JOHN DE WYLEHALE.—Various
houses, shops, etc., in the parishes of S. Mildred, S. Sepulchre, S. Magnus, S.
John de Walebrock, and elsewhere, to be sold, and the proceeds given to the
hospitals of S. Mary without Bissopesgate, etc.; the nuns of Kilburn; the
Priory of S. Mary de Suwerk ; the nuns of .... and Berkinge {Barking}; the
hospitals of S. Bartholomew de Smethefeud and S. Thomas de Suwerk; the service
of S. Mary at S. Pauls'; the nuns of Stratford, etc (No date.)
1291. WALTER LE BLOND - To
Tiffania and Alice, his daughters, nuns of Haliwelle, certain rents. To Henry
le Wyte, his nephew, a tenement in the parish of S. Michael de Kandelwystrete.
To Robert and Henry, his sons, his leasehold interest in certain manors held
under the Abbot of 'Thyletoya' (Tiltey) {Tilty} in co. Essex, and Giles le
Plays in co. Kent. Johanna, his daughter, certain rents. Adam de Foleham,
senior, and Edmund Horn appointed guardians of the said children during their
minority. To Richard, his brother, a certain house for life; to the Prior and
Convent of H. Trinity in pure alms a release of rent of a tenement in Bassingeshawe,
and of his leasehold interest in their manor of Brambele. (No date.)
1291. WILLIAM HERVI. - To the
Prior and Convent of BIakemore {Blackmore}, his shop, so that his servant John
hold the same for a term of three years after his decease, rendering to the
said prior half a mark for pittance. (No date.) (Afterwards let on lease to Sir
Richer de Refham.)
1294. JOHANNA VYEL, daughter
of John Vyel, senior … To Sir John de Chyvele {Chigwell}, chaplain, for life,
rents in Bredstrete, in the parish of S. Mildred, formerly belonging to William
Vyel, her brother. To the Prioress and Convent of Stratford, rents in the same
street, and a pittance on the day of her anniversary and that of her father, so
that they perform the service for the dead on the day of receiving the
pittance. Should this legacy be opposed by the king or anyone else by reason of
any statute, the said rent is to be realized and the proceeds given in its
stead. (No date.)
(Whereupon came Isabella de
Basinges and Johanna, her sister, and challenged the said testament, saying
that the said Johanna Vyel had only a life interest in the above tenements)
BEQUESTS RELATING TO ESSEX. 257
1297-8. SIMON MARESCALL (Simon
of the new Temple). - A house and rent in the parish of S. Brigid to be devoted
to the maintenance of a chantry in the church of Bromfeld {Broomfield}, near
Chelmeresford {Chelmsford}, in co. Essex, for a term of four years; remainder
to Sewall de Bromfeld, his brother. To Amabilia, his sister, a tenement in the
parish of S. Sepulchre without Neuwegate. Rents in the parish of S. Mary de la
Stronde to be sold by his executors and disposed of as they may think fit. (No
date.)
1298. Monday next after the
Feast of S. James, Apostle (25 July).
WILLIAM DE WAUTHAM,
cordwainer. - To the Abbot and Convent of Wautham (Waltham) and their
successors, his rents in the parish of Berking {Barking} Church in Chicken
lane. (No date).
1298. WILLIAM, Rector of Westillebyri.
— His house in the parish of S. Matthew de Frydaystrate {Friday Street} to be
sold and a portion of the proceeds devoted to a chantry in the church of S.
Paul, and to provide a pittance for the canons, minor canons, secondary
chaplains, rector of schools, vicars, clerk of the vestibule, collector of
rents, and others of the said church, on the day of his obit. (No date).
1298. Monday next after the
Feast of S. Barnabas (11 June).
WILLIAM DE HAVERYNGE — His
tenement in the parish of St. Botolph; William de Manhale and Juliana, the
daughter of the testator, to be preferred as purchasers, on condition that they
continue to provide a wax taper of one pound weight, which he (the testator)
used to maintain before the altar of the Blessed Virgin in the said church, and
another taper in the church of S. Leonard in the vill of Strateford (S.
Leonard's, Bromley.) To Agnes, his wife, another tenement in the above parish
for life. (No date.)
1299-1300. Monday next before
the Feast of S. Gregory, Pope (12 Mar.)
GEOFFREY DAVY. - To London
Bridge, sixpence .... To Beatrix, daughter of Thomas le Vynter de Chelmeresford
{Chelmsford}, his shop in the parish of S. Nicholas, at the Shambles .... (No
date.)
1301. WILLIAM DE WOOLECHERCHEHAWE.—To
the monastery at Stratford, one hundred marks of silver, so that they provide a
chantry in the chapel of S. Mary .... (No date.)
1306. Monday next before the
Feast of S. Margaret, Virgin (20 July).
JOHN DE ARMENTERS — Sixty
marks sterling for the maintenance of a chantry at the altar of S Nicholas in
the church of All Hallows upon the Cellar, for the good of his soul, the souls
of Idonia, his late wife, and others. If interment be denied him there, he
desires to be buried in the church of S Mary de Suthwerk, and the above sixty
marks are to go to the Prior and Convent of the said church for similar uses.
To Johanna, his wife, by way of dower, various cups of silver and mazer, among
them being a standing cup with three lions and two silver cups made in the form
of a nut, and all the utensils of his shop near Soperes lane. Also to his said
wife his tenement in the parish of All Hallows upon the Cellar. To Robert, his
son, a shop underneath the said church of All Hallows; and to Stephen, his son,
the reversion of a tenement in the same parish. Also to the said Robert one
hundred marks sterling; a set of three silver cups of Flemish manufacture, each
bearing four lions upon a shield; also his term in a messuage at Wodeham
fereres {Woodham Ferrers}, in co. Essex. To Richard, his son, various silver cups
and a tenement in the said parish of All Hallows; and to Idonia, his daughter, various
cups and a large caldron, which used to stand in a furnace in his house. To the
fabric of London Bridge, forty shillings. (No date.)
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