Testamenta Eboracensia, Or Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, &c., of the Province of York, Form the Year MCCC. Downwards, Volume 1J. B. Nichols and Son, 1869 - Wills |
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Page 194 - In Dei nomine Amen, xiij0 die mensis Septembris Anno Domini MiHimo Quadringentesimo Sexagesimo septimo. Ego Johannes Laytwys de Pontefracto, compos mentis et sane memorie eger tamen in corpore condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meam Deo omnipotenti beate Marie et omnibus sanctis, corpusque meum sepeliendum in cimiterio ecclesie parochialis Omnium Sanctorum in Pontefracto.
Page 256 - The name of his first wife is not known ; his second wife was Mary Butterfield, widow of John French.
Page 121 - And I will that what prest that shall serve it every day, whan that he hath saide Messe, that he stand affore my grave in his albe, and ther to say the psalme of De Profundis with the Colettes ; and then caste holy water opon my grave'.2 This type of bequest naturally lent itself to innumerable variations.
Page 29 - I'll tell you how he serv'd the bishop of Hereford, When he robVi'd him of his gold. As it befel in merry Barnsdale, All under the green-wood tree, The bishop of Hereford was to come by, With all his company. Come, kill me a ven'son...
Page 61 - ... that ingenious engine wherewith they now weave silk and other stockings, gloves, &c. This Aston added something to his master's invention ; he was sometime a miller at Thoroton, nigh which place he was born. HOLME (a hamlet near Muskham) did belong to Sir Thomas Barton, a man of great possessions in Lancashire, whose ancestor, a merchant of the Staple, built a fair house and a fair chapel like a parish church at this place.
Page 111 - ... 1495] Mr. Canon Raine failed to make out how the testator was connected. Mr. Thomas Rawson, of Easingwold, leaves to his brother William, if he lives and becomes a priest his best book (Dated May 9, 1451 and proved June 2, 1452). A William Rawson, STB, was vice-chancellor of Cambridge in 1492. He is probably the same person as the testator. The testator does not appear in Mr. Hunter's list of the provosts of Rotherham college, nor is there any appointment of him as such in Archbishop Rotherham's...
Page 202 - I wit to my executores my place in Hundgate, which place I wyll the sell ; and the money for the said to be disposid for the wele of my soule ; that is to say .... and to wayes and briges, broken or hurte to the neuance or niuertie of Crysten people, amendynge and reparinge."2 John Petty, glasier, Lord Mayor of York 1508, who died Nov.
Page 265 - ... composicion shewes. I gyff to ye servys whilke I have ordenyt to be at Smeton, os is aforesaid, my cowntyr in my chamber, for to kepe ye evydence therto belongyng and other...
Page 167 - Mary and to all the holy company of heven and my body to be buryed in the body of the cherch off the monastery off our blyssed lady of Butley beforsayde. Item I bequeth to the vestyary off the sayd monastery my hert of Goolde with my chene of Goolde to bere in relyquis in the rogacion dayes. Item I bequeth to our lady awtor off the sayd monastery my...
Page 194 - ... John of Beverley, stands on a rising ground on the north side of the village, and consists of a body, two aisles, and a chancel ; with a tower at the angle formed by the north aisle and chancel. The nave rests on three pointed arches on each side, with octagon pillars. Against the north-east pillar is fixed up a white slab, with the figure of a man in flowing hair and gown, and a purse at his right side, his hand on a cushion, and round him, on a ledge in black letter. •ffic " Hie jacet Thomas...