Testamenta cantiana : a series of extracts from fifteenth and sixteenth century wills relating to church building and topography.
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- 1906-1907
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Testamenta cantiana : a series of extracts from fifteenth and sixteenth century wills relating to church building and topography. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![siluer other wise called the coman fjne payable yerly at Mihilmas lawdaye in Eltham which usually is and in tymes passd hath be lovyed by the borowsolder ther yerly of the said inhabitants. Kesidue of xxvji\ viij^/. for a yerly obite in the church of Eltham the thurs- daye nexte after mydlent Sondaye. To the Yicar for remembryng of my sowles my wyffs and all his frendes soules in the bedroll yerly ijs. and to y® clarke for his labor and ryngeing and for other prests & darks brede drynke and other vitall to be spente yerly after the same dirige vpon the parishones than there vjs. viijc?. yerly. John Passey, 1509. (VI., 252.) I graunte a litill house joyning vppon the kechen for the parissh clarke of Eltham to duell in for euer. John Downer, 1516. (YII., 73.) I will Kauff Letham shall kej)e or cause to be kept yerly the Wedynsday in the crosse weke at the crose before his dur when the procession cu’myth in brede and ale Y]d. and vpon Seint Thomas nyght after the fest of Seint John Baptyst at the bonefyre in brede and ale Y]d. Boger Leche, 1517. (YII., 87.) To be buried in the church of Eltham before Saynt Nicholas aulter yf there be space conuenyant. My wif to cause to be layde a stone of marble oner me of ij fote square w* my pictor vppon it holdyug these words in it: Ih’u fili dei, miserere mei, w* the Trynite vppon it. Henry Olde Castell, 1514. (YII., 273.) To be buried in the chauncell of the parish Churche of Saynt John Baptest in Eltham wherof I am parisshen. I will ij acres lond lying in Cocks lane shal be putt into feoftes hands to the behoft of the church of Elteham after the decesse of my wif for euermore to endure. Henry Skylman, 1526. (YIII., 60.) To be buried in the chaunsell at the pwe or sets eande. To amendyng of the belles vjs. viijc?. Sir Philip Carrok, vicar, 1527. (YIII., 124.) I will that John and Antony my sonnes and Sir Edward, William Bowen and their heires or to whose handes or possession the fore- said landes and tenements doo com, discent, sale or otherwise enjoye the same that they and their heires shall euery yere yerely for euer more fynde or cause to be founde alweys yerely vpon Tewesday in the Bogacion weke at the Procession tyme at the crosse vpon Shoters hill a fyrkyri of Ale and xi]d. in bred to be dispossed and gyven amonge pour people comyng w^ the same procession and also shall geve and paye vnto the preest then reding the gospell ]d. and the clerk there being jd. John Browne, gent., 1533. (P.C.C.,25,Hogen.) To be buried in the church porche. To the church of Eltham a blewe vestment, an albe, a stole, a phanell, an amis, a corporas case with a cloth for it. Two creuetts of pewter, a sakaring bell, a paxe, a lectren for the altar, also a masse booke, two portises, a blewe corporas case w'' the cloth remayning at Sir Giles Alingtons in Cambridge shire. Thomas Huxley, Yicar, 1557. (XII. (i.), I2I.) I doo geve vnto the high aulter in the same churche towards the mayntenance of the light afore the blessed sacrament iijs. iiijc?. Sir Christ^’ Wymyngton, prest, 1557. (P.C.C., 48, Wrastley.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2898738x_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
