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Prerogative Court of Canterbury

Liber Stevenson, Folio 30 or 47; new reference PROB 11/47

Will of James Whitney, of Clifford, Herefordshire, dated 18 May 1562, proved 14 Nov 1564.

Transcription:

In the name of god amen xviii die mensis Maii Anno Domini 1562 I James Whitney of Clifford being sicke of body and in perfect remembrance praise be unto god doe make this my last will and testament in manner and fourme following, ffirst I commend my soule unto almightie god my maker and redemer and my body to be buried in the Church of Clifford /

Item I doe give and bequeath unto the Cathedrall church of Hereford iij s iiij d

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Eustaige Whitney my sonne and heire six oxen and six kin__ /

Also I doe give and bequeath unto Elizabeth Whitney my daughter for and towards her marriage forty poundes and one featherbed with appertenances

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Blanch Whitney my daughter towards the preserment of her marriage forty poundes and one fetherbed with the appertenances /

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Ellinor my Daughter forty poundes and one fetherbed with the appertenances /

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Katherin my Daughter towards the preserment of her marriage forty poundes and one fetherbed with the appertenances

Item I do give and bequeath unto Jane Whitney my Daughter towards the preserment of her marriage forty poundes and one featherbed with the appertenances

Item I doe give and bequeath unto every one of my saide daughters iiij pewter disshes and eche of them one brasse pott and one brasse panne if there be so many over and besides my best pott and panne which I doe give unto Eustace my sonne aforesaid, yf there be not so many thenne do I will as many pottes and pannes as there be of myne shalbe distributed amongst my saide daughters by the discression of my executors

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Myle Whitney and James Whitney my sonnes eche of them six poundes xiij s iiij d

Item wheras Ricc Vaughan by a certaine writing obligatiory is indetted unto me in the somme of twenty poundes I will my executors shall doe their indevor to recover the same twenty poundes of the same Ric Vaughan and yf they be therof paied then _______ after suche _____ and payment thereof had I will that my saide executors shall paie the same unto Myle and James my sonnes aforesaid by even porcions to their owne use and as my gifte and legacy unto them

Item I doe give unto Elizabeth and Katherin my daughters aforesaid all my flax and hempe now being sowen

Item I doe give unto Eustaige Whitney my said sonne ij fetherbeds with their appurtenances

Item I doe give and bequeath unto the said Eustage my sonne my black stoned horse

Item I doe give unto my v Daughters before named all the woll nowe being in my house to be evenli distributed amongst them

Item wheras I have six poundes xiij s iiij d in mortgaige uppon the landes of Richard Dayowe in Glasbury and six poundes thirtene shillings and iiij d uppon the landes of David ap John in Clirowe if the same monney by paid in redemption of the same landes Then due I give and bequeath the same severall sommes of money unto Thomas Whitney my sonne and in the meane tyme untill yt be redemed I doe give the same landes in Glasbury and Clirowe and all my estate tytle and interest therin unto the said Thomas Whitney my sonne and to his heires and assignes

Item I doe give and bequeath unto the said Thomas my sonne tenne ___ which is in the handes of Harry Thomas ap John and in the handes of a sister of the saide Harry together with the hier of the saide tenne Kien(?)

Item I doe give unto the saide Thomas Whitney my sonne my graye stoned horse with a saddell and a bridle

Item if anny of my saide daughters happen to die before they shalbe married Thence I will her legacyes so dying shall r___ and be distributed amongest the rest of my daughters then living /

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Howell Penoyer my sonne in law two steres of my best steeres

Item I do give my best gowne and Satten dublett unto Eustaige my saide sonne

Item I doe give one other gowne to Thomas Whitney my saide sonne

Item I doe give and bequeath unto Roberte my sonne tenne poundes

Item I doe give unto William Whitney my sonne six poundes xiij s iiij d

Item I doe give unto Eustaige my sonne my silver salte and twelve spoones of silver

And of this my last will and testament I doe ordeine and make Richard Whitney my brother William Whitney my cosen Eustage Whitney and Thomas Whitney my saide sonnes my full and whole executors and my verry frende and cosen Sir Robert Whitney Knight and my sonne in lawe Howell Bennoydr my oversears

These Being witnesses Edward Heyward Vicar of Clifford[,] William Davis[,] Lewis ap Yvan[,] Watkin ap Rosse[,] William Vaughan[,] and Thomas ap Harry and others

Debt due unto the Testator

In primis uppon the landes of John Dee tenne poundes ./ Item uppon the landes of Thomas Phillpott fower poundes six shillings viij d ./ Item uppon the landes of Richard Gybes fyfty thre shillings and iiij d ./ Item Richard Herbert and Willi(a)m Herbert fower poundes ./ Item Thomer Lewis thirti thre shillings and iiij d Item William Whitney fourtene poundes xiij s iiij d. Item Thomas Whitney of brungoyne fyfty that shillings iiij d ./ Item Ricc Vaughan twenty poundes

Debtes uppon the testator

In primus To Watkyn ap Harry tenne shillings ./ Item to Roger Tanner vi s viij d / Item to Willi(a)m David threscore six shillings viij d ./ Item in London there ys to be paied thirty thre shillings and iiij d

Item my will is also that my sonne Eustage Whitney shall maintayne and kepe my two sonnes Robert and William to schole twoo yeres next after my decease and synde them all things necessary on his costes during the same twoo yeres ./ Item I doe give unto Anne Whitney my base daughter one cowe to be delivered her ymmediatlie after my decease

Probatum uit suprasceptu(m) testament coram Mag(ist)ro Waltero Haddon Legum Doctore Curie ________ (4 more lines)