Will of Edmund Norman

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WILL OF EDMUND NORMAN¹

IN Dei nomine, amen. Ego Edmundus Norman de Fylby,
     compos mentis, die Dominica in festo sancti Nicholai
     Episcopi, anno domini M^lmo iiij^c xl. iiij.^to, condo testa-
mentum meum in hunc mundum (sic). In primis do et lego
animam meam Deo Patri, &c., corpusque meum sepeliendum
in ecclesia sancti Petri de Crowmere. Item, summo altari
                              vjs. viijd.²
ecclesiæ prædictæ xld. Item, emendacioni ejusdem ecclesiæ
vjs. viijd.²
xld. Item, summo altari ecclesiæ de Fylby xld. Item,
emendationi ecclesiæ de Fylby prædictæ vel fenestræ de novo
faciendæ et intrando in parte boriali ecclesiæ prædictæ in fine
occidentali, x. marcas. Item, Edmondo, capellano sancti
Johannis Baptistæ in eadem ecclesia, xld. Item, volo quod
omnes feoffati in terris et tenementis remittant jus suum
Edmundo Clere armigero, magistro meo, ut ipse vendat et
disponat cum aliis executoribus meis pro salute animæ meæ, et
patris, matris, et omnium quibuscumque teneor. Item, cuilibet
ordini fratrum de Jernemoth, vjs. viiid. Item, fratribus
ordinis Minorum de Walsyngham vjs. viiid. Item, lego
Willelmo Bondis omnia bona mea existentia in hospicio meo
de Clifforde
London’, videlicet lectum et indumenta mea. Item, lego
Roberto Baketon et uxori ejus, firmario meo in Fylby, omnia
utencilia mea infra mansionem meam ibidem præter lectum
plumale postea legatum. Item, Edmundo filio dicti Roberti,
filiolo meo, xls. Item, filiabus ejusdem Roberti, Elizabethæ
et Margaretæ, cuilibet xxs. Item, Edmundo filio Roberti
Norman de Ormesby, vjs. viiid. Item, Ricardo Kemp, xxvjs.
viijd. Item, Johanni Grave, sonam meam deargent’.³ Item,
Nicholao Pekeryng de Fylby, meum optimum lectum plumale
infra mansionem meam apud Fylby. Item, Johanni Spencer
de Crowmere, xxs. Item, uxori Johannis Couche, pro labore
et diligentia suis circa me dum infirmabar, vjs. viijd. Item,
Edmundo Bataly capellano vjs. viiid. Item, lego Thomæ
Stalham et uxori ejus meum lectum plumale apud Norwicum.
Item, die obitus mei ad exequias, cuilibet capellano iiijd. et
clerico, jd. Item, ad distribuendum inter pauperes die sepul-
turæ, xld. Residuum vero bonorum meorum non legatorum
do et lego executoribus meis, quos ordino et constituto
Edmundum Clere, armigerum, Magistrum meum Robertum
Clere, Willelmum Bondes, Nicholaum Pekeryng, Magistrum
Johannem Semecrofte et Ricardum Kemp, ut ipsi disponant pro
salute animæ meæ.

     ²Et lego dicto Edmundo Clere pro labore suo xli. si vult.
Et Roberto Clere Cs., et similiter cuilibet aliorum executorum
xls.

     Item, lego Pers. de Crowmere iijs. iiijd.

     Item, volo quod in fenestra ecclesiæ de Fylby tres³
ymagines, videlicet, una ymago sancti Edmundi, alter[a] Sancti
Johannis Baptistæ, alia Sanctæ Mariæ, et ibidem fiat scriptio:
—Orate pro animabus Johannis Norman seniori, Margaretœ
uxoris ejus, et Edmundi filii prœdicti et tale armo (sic). [Here
follows a sketch of a shield, the upper part marked as silver and
the lower black, with the word ‘Katerwole’ (?) upon it.]

     ¹ [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 10.]          ² Interlineations by another hand.

     ³ Here occurs an illegible interlineation, in which only ‘xs.’ is visible.

     ¹ Interlineations by another hand.

     ² What follows is in a different hand, apparently the same as that of the inter-
lineations noticed above.                   ³ Corrected from ‘quatuor.’

1444
DEC. 6

1444
DEC. 6

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ABSTRACT¹

     Bill witnessing a concord made 24 Sept. 4 Hen. VI. between John
Kertelyng, clerk, general attorney to Sir John Fastolf, on the one part, and
Richard Boson, Esq., on the other, viz.: That Fastolf shall have in fee-simple
the manor of the said Richard in Castre called Bosons of the gift of the said
Richard before Easter next, and that the said Richard shall have Fastolf’s
manor in Titeleshale called Peekhalle, in fee-simple, of the gift of Fastolf,
paying to Fastolf £60 within the next four years.

     ¹ [From a Bodl. MS.]

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