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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… ANNO 2 EDWARD I. Monday the Feast of S. Edmund, King and Martyr [20 Nov.]. Staundon (William de).Gift and assignment to Orabla his wife of his houses in London, … said Orabla, who was present in the Husting, being asked how and in what manner she claimed to hold the said houses …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… embroidered with hounds 3 ( cum leporariis), with tester and half canopy ( cum tester et demi silur); another bed of … "ladihevedes" worked in tapestry; dishes of peautrer, and four large chargeours. To the aforesaid Johanna bequests … in her by the testatrix is remarkable. Stow records how, anno 48 Edward III., as Lady of the Sun, she rode from …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… church of S. Nicholas Coldabbey. Directions as to funeral and subsequent disposal of wax torches, some of which he … Padyngton his father, Johan his mother, John his brother, and others; the said chantry priest to say a De Profundis as … a fair tomb of grey marble, 1485," says Stow, who recounts how" he gave to poor maids' marriages of that parish twenty …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of All Hallows, Barking, which he leaves to the Abbot and Convent of the exempt 1 Monastery of the Holy Cross at … To Sir William Huntyngdon, the rector, churchwardens and parishioners of the church of S. James de Garlikhithe, he … Girdlers' Company appears to be in Basinghall Street, but how and when it was acquired the Company say they do not know …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… of the church of S. Michael upon Cornhull six shillings and eightpence. To John Leche, ironmonger, certain tenements and rents in the parish of S. Michael aforesaid for forty … instead of that of cutlers; and it is difficult to see how any deceit could well have been practised in such a case …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… S. Olave, to be sold within two years after his decease, and the proceeds divided between John and Alice his children. Certain tenements in the parish of S. … de Pagula (or Pagham), is in the Guildhall Library, but how it came to be deposited there is uncertain. It is a …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… 1 at the entrance of their cloister. Bequests for pious and charitable uses for the good of his soul and the souls of Margaret his wife, his father and mother, … pounds on condition that the said John be willing to swear how much he is indebted to Walter de Mourdon and his wife …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… to the high altar, ministers, &c., of the said church, and also to the church of Hardyngham, 1 charged on his crops and other goods in the vill of Hardyngham. To John his son … popularly known as S. Antonin or Antholin; and here we see how the letter lcrept in. Sheriff in 1337-8. Riley, in his …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… venie). Bequests to the church of All Hallows at the Hay and ministers thereof. Forty pence to be distributed around … Alianora his sister he leaves twenty shillings, to Henry and John his apprentices and Thomas his kinsman divers gowns, and to Johanna his …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… church of S. Thomas the Apostle. Bequests to the churches and ministers of S. Mary de Fanchirche and S. Thomas aforesaid; to various religious orders, the … were not incorporated by charter till 1445. 2 Stow relates how in 1349 Sir Walter Manny bought a piece of land "lying in …