Nuncupative Will of Edmund Paston

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Title
Nuncupative Will of Edmund Paston
Reference
Add. 27443, f. 101
Date
21 March 1449
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol II, item 85
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume II'

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NUNCUPATIVE WILL OF EDMUND PASTON1

 

      OMNIBUS Christi fidelibus ad quos præsens scriptum
           pervenerit, Nos, Willelmus May, Magister Novi
          Templi, London’, Johannes Bakton gentilman, Thomas
Parker, civis et cissor Londoni, et Johannes Osbern, salutem
in Domino sempiternam. Sciatis quod xxj. die Martij Anno
Domini mccccxlviij.2 Edmundus Paston de comitatu Norff.,
armiger, in bona memoria ac sana mente existens, languens in
extremis, in nostra praesentia, condidit et declaravit testamentum
suum nuncupativum in hunc modum:—In primis, legavit ani-
mam suam Deo Omnipotenti, Beatæ Mariæ Virgini et omnibus
Sanctis, corpusque suum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia Templi
praedicti, sive in ecclesia Fratrum Carmelitarum London’ [ad
electionem sui confessoris3]. Item dictus Edmundus, pro eo
quod noluit circa bona sive negocia temporalia mentem sive
animam suam affligere seu occupare, set ad æternam felicitatem
se praeparare, dedit, legavit ac commisit omnia bona et catalla
sua praedilecto fratri suo Johanni Paston, ex magna confidencia
in ipso habita ut ea disponeret pro bono animæ suæ, prout
melius videret Deo placere ac animæ suæ prodesse. Et dictum
Johannem Paston ordinavit et constituit executorem suum. In
cujus rei testimonum praesentibus sigilla nostra apposuimus.

 

     Endorsed—Copia ultimae voluntatis Edmundi Paston.

     Endorsed in a later hand—Testamentum Edmundi Paston secundi filii Willelmi
Paston Justiciarii.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

     2 This is 1449 according to the modern computation, which begins the year on
the 1st of January instead of the 25th March.

     3 These words are erased.

 

 

 

 

 

1449
MARCH 21