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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… under the same conditions. Dated London, at his dwelling-house without Aldrichesgate in the parish of S. Botolph … payment of six shillings and eightpence to the Mayors or Wardens of the City of London, and of thirty shillings to … 9 April, 1382. 2 I.e. a cup in the same shape as a pear. 3 See note supra, p. 25. 4 A courtby or courtpy, a short cloak …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… 84 (2). Monday the Feast of S. Ambrose [4 April]. Fich or Fyssh (John).To be buried in the churchyard of S. Mary … He wills that John his apprentice continue to work in his house as best he may for one year after his decease, and then … will may have derived his name. Prayer-beads or rosaries. See note supra, p. 626. Weavers. Pottle or two quarts. …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… touching her movables. To John Lovell her servant a lower house beneath a solar, with right of way from … wife forty pounds in satisfaction of her reasonable dower or part, on condition she remain chaste and unmarried, and a … Poole. 3 Chivelstone, near Start Point. 1 Or S. Eloy. (See note supra, p. 268.) …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… of dower, certain tenements and rents; also his dwelling-house in the parish of S. Martin Orgar, subject to a bequest … of their respective bodies, should have power to alien or sell the same, but that the same should descend from one … another of his blood in manner prescribed. Roll 31 (74). See note supra, p. 13. See note supra, p. 97. See next page, …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… of William de Hedersete, may select for a dwelling-house for life. Dated London, Saturday the Feast of S. … and to the work of S. Paul's. Bequests also of money or corn to John Edward, butcher, his kinsman, to John his … (pp. 183-5). By the custom of the City this was possible. (See Introduction.) Colobium= a short coat without sleeves …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… before the Feast of SS. Simon and Jude [28 Oct.]. Arcall or Arcoll (John), tailor.To Master Thomas Westowe, the … which he leaves to the Prioress and Convent of the house and church of nuns of S. Leonard of Stratford atte …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… amount of a bond. To the Master and Wardens of the Guild or Fraternity of Corpus Christi of the Skinners of London and … lands and tenements in Fanchurch Street, and his house in the parish of S. Thomas the Apostle; also lands and … Abbots Bromley. 1 Commemorated at the present day by Balm Road, Hackney, in the vicinity of which there once stood a …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… No date. Roll 32 (7). Gillingham (William de).His house to be sold, and a chantry to be maintained out of the … before the Feast of S. Gregory, Pope [12 March]. Wodere or Weyder 5 (Robert le).To John his brother his capital house … among his children equally. No date. Roll 32 (111). See note supra, p. 89. See note supra, p. 153. Co. …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Suthwerkbarre and at Hakeneye; to the poor sisters in the house of S. Katherine near the Tower, and to every anchorite … his wife [not named] whatever is due to her by the custom or law of the country; also her chamber, with jewels and … 1357. Roll 86 (110). 1 Strictly speaking half-brother. See note to will of Richard Chaucer, Part I. p. 590. See also …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… procedure in a common recovery in the Court of Husting, see Part I., Introd., pp. xvii-xix. …