Wills: 2-10 Henry VII (1486-95)

Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London: Part 2, 1358-1688. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1890.

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ANNO 2 HENRY VII.

Monday the Feast of S. Vincent, Martyr [22 Jan.].

Padyngton (Thomas), fishmonger.—To be buried in the church of S. Nicholas Coldabbey. Directions as to funeral and subsequent disposal of wax torches, some of which he bequeaths to the Fraternity of Jesus in the croudes (fn. 1) of S. Paul's Cathedral. Provision made for a chantry in the church of S. Nicholas aforesaid for the good of his soul, the souls of Margaret his late wife, John Padyngton his father, Johan his mother, John his brother, and others; the said chantry priest to say a De Profundis as he turns from the lavatory at the altar's end. Also to the church of S. Nicholas aforesaid he leaves two copes of the value of twelve pounds embroidered with his arms, and ten shillings to be given to poor householders within the parish. Other pecuniary legacies to the Prior and Convent of the Charterhouse, the house of the Minoresses called "Seint Clare" without Aldgate, the Prioress and Convent of Syon, co. Middlesex, the Master and Brethren of the College of Plesshe, (fn. 2) co. Essex, the old work of Poules, the house of S. John near Smythfeld, the lazar house at Knyghtbrigge, and the sick people in the lazer cotes next about London, &c. To Elizabeth his daughter, a professed nun of the Order of S. Clare, he leaves twenty pounds. To William his brother his musterdevilers (fn. 3) gown furred. To John his son one hundred pounds. To Master William Gisborowe his little black notte the kevert gilt. To Alice his wife for her share of his goods two hundred marks. Also he leaves twenty shillings to be given percelmele by his executors to those preaching the word of God at Poules Crosse, and there praying and publishing his name among other Christian people. To Richard Layty, the parson, and churchwardens of the church of S. Nicholas aforesaid and their successors, an annual rent of ten shillings, issuing from his tenement called "the Swan on the hoope" in the parish of S. Nicholas, for keeping his obit, &c.; remainder in case of default to the parson and churchwardens of the church of S. Mary Magdalen beside Old Fisshstrete. Also to the Minoresses without Aldgate certain rents in Fridaystrete and Distaflane to the use of Elizabeth his aforesaid daughter for life; remainder to the use of the abbess and convent for their prayers. Also to John his son tenements in Fridaystrete and Distaflane in the parish of S. Margaret Moises, subject to the above rent charge, in tail; remainder over. Dated 21 February, A.D. 1485.
Roll 216 (5).

[Rolls 217 and 218, no wills entered.]

Footnotes

  • 1. 2 The crypt under the choir. Concerning the fraternity here mentioned Stow makes the following remarks:— "Then under the choir of Paules is a large chapel, first dedicated to the name of Jesu, founded, or rather confirmed, the 37th of Henry VI., as appeareth by his patent thereof, dated at Croydone, to this effect: 'Many liege men, and Christian people, having begun a fraternitie and guild, to the honour of the most glorious name of Jesus Christ our Saviour, in a place called the Crowdes of the cathedrall church of Paul's in London......,' &c." (Stow's 'Survey,' Thoms's edition, 1876, p. 123).
  • 2. 1 Plecy or Pleshy, where there was a college for a master and eight secular priests, two clerks, and two choristers, founded by Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, anno 17 Richard II., to the honour of the Holy Trinity.
  • 3. 2 See note supra, p. 512.
  • 4. 3 Alderman of Walbrook Ward Sheriff, 1452; and Mayor, 1469.
  • 5. 1 Elected Recorder of the City of London in 1471-2 in the place of Thomas Urswyk, elected Chief Baron; Serjeantat-Law, 1478; Chief Baron, 1484.
  • 6. 1 See note supra, p. 329.
  • 7. 2 The testator's directions apparently ended at the word amen.
  • 8. 3 Of Walbrook Ward; Sheriff, 1469.
  • 9. 4 Or Little S. Bartholomew towards the Exchange.
  • 10. 5 See note supra, p. 513.
  • 11. 1 Alderman of Cornhill Ward; Sheriff, 1469; Mayor, 1474. One of the same name was buried in the church of S. Michael, Cornhill, "under a fair tomb of grey marble, 1485," says Stow, who recounts how" he gave to poor maids' marriages of that parish twenty pounds, to poor of that ward ten pounds, shirts and smocks three hundred, and gowns of broadcloth one hundred, &c." In the first edition of Stows 'Survey' the chronicler gives a different account of the charitable bequests made by Robert Drope, but neither of the accounts agrees with the particulars of the will here enrolled; moreover the date 1485 given by Stow is clearly wrong if his remarks apply to the testator.
  • 12. 1 The eleven thousand virgins who, according to the legend, were martyred with S. Ursula, their leader, at Cologne. Some of their bones are said to have been found, among other relics, in the old cross of S. Paul's belfry, which was taken down in 1313-14 to be repaired ('French Chronicle of London,' Riley's translation, p. 251).
  • 13. 2 Pronounced "Breuse"; the character "v" in the middle of a word usually standing for "u," and vice versâ.
  • 14. 1 I.e., mortmain.
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