Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London: Part 2, 1358-1688. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1890.
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'Wills: 19 Edward IV (1478-9)', in Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London: Part 2, 1358-1688, (London, 1890) pp. 578-579. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/court-husting-wills/vol2/pp578-579 [accessed 23 April 2024]
ANNO 19 EDWARD IV.
Monday the Feast of S. Lucia, Virgin [13 Dec.].
Rothom or Rodom (John), tailor.—Testament touching a garden in the parish of S. Mary le Bow, which he leaves to Marion his wife for life, with remainder to William Morlond, the rector, and churchwardens of the church of S. Mary aforesaid and their successors, charged with the observance of his obit under penalty of paying six shillings and eightpence to the rector and churchwardens of the church of S. Michael de Crokedlane for every default. Dated 16 September, A.D. 1465.
Roll 209 (10).
Norman (John), draper and Alderman (fn. 1) of the City of London. —To be buried according to directions contained in another will touching his movables. To the rector and churchwardens of the church of S. Mary le Bow he leaves an annual rent issuing from tenements situate in the churchyard of the said church near Westchepe, to be paid to a certain chaplain, commonly called "Trinite preste," serving at the altar of the H. Trinity in the aforesaid church. The tenements so charged he devises to the rector and churchwardens aforesaid to the use of their church. Dated London, 20 March, A.D. 1468.
Roll 209 (11).
Monday next after the Feast of S. Mathias, Apostle [24 Feb.].
Leynham otherwise Plommer (John), Knt.—To be buried in the monastery of the Charterhouse. Bequests to the said monastery, the churches of S. Leonard near Estchepe, S. Edmund in Lumbardstret, S. Botolph without Aldrichegate, and others; also for dirigees and masses of Requiem, and for a priest to "synge and pray a trentall of Seynt Gregory (fn. 2) wt all the fastynges and observaunces therto belongyng"; also to divers orders of friars of London and of Aylesbury; to prisoners of Newgate, Ludgate, King's Bench, and Marchelsea; to lepers in divers houses in and about London, &c. To "Dane" (fn. 3) John Walsyngham, Prior of the Monastery of the Salutation of the Mother of God of the Order of the Charterhouse, and convent of the same, he leaves certain tenements in the parish of "Oure lady Fanchirche," charged with the observance of his obit and other pious and charitable uses. Margaret his wife to have the residue of his goods, chattels, and debts. Appoints William, Lord Hastings, the King's Chamberlain, to be overseer of his testament. Dated 15 July, A.D. 1478.
Roll 209 (14).