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Sunday 16 March 2014

Bequests Relating to Essex (3): Transactions n.s. Volume 13 Part 4

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.

{Part 3}
{A transcription of an article taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (now the Essex Society for Archaeology and History), ‘new series’ Volume 13 part 4, published in 1914. Items in curly brackets { } have been added for the convenience of the modern reader on the Internet.  Your feedback on this article would be appreciated, especially if you have referred to it in the course of research.}

258 BEQUESTS RELATING TO ESSEX.

1307. Monday next after the Feast of All Saints (1 Nov.)
SIMON DE ABENACH, de Havering.—To John and Nicholas, his sons, certain of his houses and shops in the parish of S. Edelburga. Other houses and shops in the same parish to be devoted to the maintenance of two chaplains, one to celebrate at the altar of S. Peter in Hornchurch (Ecclesia Cornuta), and the other to celebrate where his executors shall choose. (No date.)

1311. JOHN DE BRYNKELE, blader, i.e. corn merchant. — To Isabella, his wife, his tenement in the parish of S. Michael, Queenhithe, for life; remainder to Stephen, his son. Sons: William, John, Henry .... To Dame Johanna de Brynkele, his daughter, a nun of Berkynge {Barking}, a house upon la Roumlonde, in the said parish of S. Michael, for life. Daughters: Idonea, Margaret, Margery, and Beatrice. (No date.)

1316. THOMAS DE BOLONIA or BOLOIGNE. — His messuage called 'Cokedon halle,' in the parish of S. Dunstan towards the Tower, to be sold, and chantries to be provided out of the proceeds in the said parish church, as well as at Briche (Birch), and Stistede {Stisted}. Bequests of five marks out of the same to the Prior of Berdene {Berden} for pious uses for the souls of the testator, Mary, his late wife, Ralph, the moneyer of Chileham, and others To Thomas, his son, a moiety of his ship, called 'La Margerie,' and ten pounds of silver; and to Johanna, his daughter, his leasehold interest in a tenement at Billingg(esgate), together with a leaden cistern and utensils therein. (No date,)
(The manor of Birch was holden of the Honour of Boulogne).

1323. Monday next before the feast of S. Barnabas (11 June.)
RICHARD DE GLOUCESTER. — To Johanna, his daughter, a nun of Berkyngge {Barking}, and to Idonea, his daughter, a nun of S. Elena, certain rents of a tenement in the parishes of S. Mary de Colcherch and S. Pancras, between a lane called ‘Bordhawe' and a lane called 'Gropecuntelane' .... (No date.)

1323. Monday next before the Feast of S. Margaret, Virgin (20 July.)
WILLIAM DE TILLEBIRI, Rector of the church of Heitfeld (Hatfield) —To Ralph de Thedmersh, rents in the parish of S. Edmund, King and Martyr, in Lumbardestrete and elsewhere. (No date)

1328. Monday next before the Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist (18 Oct.)
WALTER DE HERLAWE. — To Agnes, his daughter, divers specific chattels and the whole of his stock in the parish of Eppinge {Epping} in co. Essex. To Johanna, his wife, his tenement in the parish of All Hallows, by London Wall, for life; remainder to the said Agnes. Dated London, Monday next after Feast of S. Luke, Evangelist (18 Oct.), 1327.

1328-9. Monday next after the Feast of S. Hilary (13 Jan.)
MASTER RICHARD DE GLOUCESTRE. — To his kinsman, John de Gloucestre, a certain tenement. To Katherine, daughter of Geoffrey de St. Alban, his house in Fridaistrete {Friday Street}, near the church of S. Margaret, for life ; and to John, his son, a certain hall erected on a stage over the street, together with a shop .... The reversion of a tenement in Fridaistrete to be devoted to the maintenance of London Bridge, saving an annual rent of ten shillings left to the lord of the manor of 'Southalle Marreis' (manor of South Hall in East Tilbury), for the repair and preservation of the walls of the Thames within the said manor, with power to distrain for the same .... Dated London, VIII. Kal. December (24 Nov.), A.D. 1328.

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1329-30. NICHOLAS DE PERUNDENE Or PERUNDON {Parndon}. — His shop in the parish of S. Nicholas de Colemanstrete (sic), and also a certain brewhouse, to be sold for pious uses. The same to be done with ten acres of land in the vill of Perundon (Parndon), and two shops in the vill of S. Alban, in the stret called 'Spitelstrate,' in the parish of S. Stephen. Dated London, Wednesday next before the Feast of S. Katherine, Virgin (25 Nov.), 1329.

1331. Monday, the Feast of S. Mary Magdalen (22 July.)
HUMFREY DE WALDENE, knt. — To Humfrey, Adam, and Alexander, his sons. a messuage and rents in the parish of S. Peter the Less, in successive tail. To John, his son, 'de Laufare,' ten pounds. To Joanna wife of William Sturmyn, his messuage in the vill of S. Edmund, in fee. Dated 'Riclinge,' April, 5 Edward III., A.D 1331.

1332. MATILDA DE CAUNTEBREGGE. — To Thomas atte Pyrie, son of Stephen de Cauntebregge, her rents in the parish of S. Mary de Stanynglane, until Stephen, her son, shall pay to the said Thomas twenty marks of silver; remainder to her said son. Also to the same Thomas, in tail, the tenement in Fletestrete, he paying to Alice, her daughter, an annuity of twenty-four shillings ; remainder to Stephen, her son, in tail ; remainder to Katherine, daughter of Anketin Gesors. Dated at Donmawe (Dunmow), Wednesday next before the Feast of S. Alphege, Archbishop (19 April), A.D. 1332.

1333. Monday next before the Feast of S. Martin (11 Nov.)
Sir JOHN DE ST. PHILBERT, knt. To Hugh, his son, all his houses in the City of London, and in the vill. of S. Edmund, in tail ; remainder to the testators heirs, in tail male. Dated Canefeld {Canfield}, in the diocese of London, Thursday, the Vigil of S. Luke, Evangelist (18 Oct.), A.D. 1331.

1335. HENRY DE BYDYK. — To William de Ilford and Sir Thomas de Karlel, rector of the church of Bassyngeshawe, sixty-five marks annual quitrent, charged on all his rents in London and the suburbs, for providing seven chantries for one year after his decease, to wit, two in the church of Aldermannebury, two in the church of Bassyngeshawe, two in the church of Fynchesle, and one in the church of Welcomstowe (Walthamstow) … To the aforesaid William de Ilford, rents in the parish of S. Margaret de Lothebury, for life, and also annually one robe or twenty shillings, to be given to him on the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord … Dated at his manor of Fynchesleye, Sunday, the Octave of Easter (16 April), A.D. 1335.

1338. Monday next after the Feast of S. Martin (11 Nov.).
THOMAS HARDEL. — To William, his son, four shops in the parish of S. Mary de Fencherehe. William de Eppyng {Epping}, tapicer, appointed guardian to the said son. To John, his son, a garden in the above parish near the garden of the Priory and Convent of Ware. Dated Leyton, Sunday the Feast of H. Trinity (15 June), A.D. 1337.

1338. Monday the Feast of S. Clement, Pope (23 Nov.)
WILLIAM DE PARYS, de Northwelde {North Weald}, co. Essex. — To Roger de Waltham, corder, a chamber built aloft in and beyond the lane called 'Cosineslane,' in the parish of All Hallows at the Hay. To Sir Ralph de Spigurnel, knt., and Alice his sister, wife of the testator, two tenements and certain rents in the same lane and parish. A parcel of land in the parish of S. Mary Magdalen, at the Old Fish Market, to be sold for the good of his soul. Dated London, Monday the Feast of S. Clement, Pope (23 Nov ), A.D. 1338.

260 BEQUESTS RELATING TO ESSEX.

1338-9. Monday next after the Feast of S. Hilary (13 Jan.)
ROBERT DE MUNDENE, rector of Stifford, in the diocese of London. - A certain tenement in the parish of S. Mary Magdalen, near the old Fish Market, to be devoted to the augmentation of a chantry in the church of S. Paul, for the soul of John de Mundene, formerly canon of the same church. The residue, however, etc. (sic). Dated London, Thursday next after the Feast of Conception of V. Mary (8 Dec.), 1338.

1341.—J0HN DE OXON, Rector of the church of S. Peter upon Cornhill. — To Robert de Clare, chaundeler, a tenement in the said parish of S. Peter. To the Prioresses and nuns of Cheshunte, Clerkenwell, and Stratford-atte-Bowe, divers tenements and rents in the parishes of S. Stephen, Colmanstrete, and S. Martin de Oteswyche, for keeping in mind his name and the name of Juliana (his wife?). Dated London, Friday next after the Feast of S. Mark, Evangelist (25 April), A.D. 1341.

1340. —RICHARD MARTYN (de Westbiry), called 'de Burgstede,' rector of the church of Chelmersford {Chelmsford}. — Three tenements (situate in Bradestrete, parish of S. Benedict Fynk; in Shitebournelane, parish of S. Mary, Wolnoth; and in the parish of S. John Zakary, respectively) to be sold by his executors to fulfil his testament if his other goods do not suffice. Dated London, the Feast of S. James, Apostle (25 July), A.D. 1338.

1341. Monday next after the Feast of All Saints (1 Nov.).
ROGER DE PARYS, goldsmith. — To Leticia, his wife, a brewery in the parish of S. Alban de Wodestrete, and a tenement in Goldynglane, parish of S. Giles without Cripelgate, for life, so long as she remain chaste and unmarried; remainder to Katherine and John, his children, in tail. To Margaret, his daughter, a tenement in the parish of S. Olave the King, in Silverstrete. Also to his said wife a tenement in Redecrouchestrete, in the aforesaid parish of S. Giles, for life; remainder to the Prior and Convent of Latton, near Waltham Holy Cross, in co. Essex, for pious uses. Another tenement in the same street and parish to be sold for pious uses. Dated Thursday, the morrow of S. Ambrose, Bishop (4 April), A.D. 1341.

1342. JOHN DE OXENFORD, vintner. — His body to be buried in the church of S. James de Garlekhuth, or elsewhere, according to the direction of his executors; one hundred pounds, and more, if necessary, to be expended on his funeral ; one hundred pounds to be given to the poor of London on the day of his funeral … Bequests of measures of red, wine and money to the various orders of friars in London; the convents of S. Mary de Suthewerk, S. Bartholomew de Smethefeld, Faveresham, S. Alban, Waldene {Walden}, Waverle, Hurlee, Lesnes, Bermondeseye, Tiltey {Tilty}, and Stratford; the nuns of Halywell, Clerkenwell, Kelebourne, Chesthonte, and Bromhale, and the Minoress Sisters without Alegate, in return for their prayers … Dated 1 May, A.D. 1340. (Lord Mayor, died in office)


1342. GEOFFREY ALEYN, fishmonger. — To be buried in the church of S. Dionisius, before the rood there, to wit, between the two doors of the said church. To Matilda, his wife, all his tenements and rents in the City of London, for life. To Alan, his son, the reversion of a tenement in Grascherche Street, in tail, charged with an annuity to Isabella, sister of the said Alan, a nun of Stratford … Sons: Robert and William; daughters: Margery, Leticia, and Agnes .... Dated London, in the said parish of S. Dionisius, Monday, the Feast of Nativity of S. John Baptist (24 June), A.D. 1342.

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