Will of Robert Plompton

47 13 July 1482

Will of Robert Plompton of Plompton, esq. Whereas he has enfeoffed
his mother Dame Joan Plompton and others of his manors, lands,
tenements, rents, reversions, advowsons and commodities in Yorks,
Notts, Derbyshire and Staffs, his will is that in the event of his death
Dame Joan and Dame Agnes, his wife, are to receive jointly and
without disturbance the revenues, offices farms and profits therefrom
and raise a sum of 400m as a portion for his daughter Jane, should she
be granted ‘the grace of life’; that they should lose no time in paying
his dues and debts, and in rewarding his servants according to their
deserts. After the deaths of his wife and mother the feoffees are to
make a lawful estate of all the premises to Jane Plompton his daughter
and her heirs in perpetuity.

Witnesses: Brother Robert Bolton, minister of St Robert’s Thomas
Middleton, esq., Robert Gylyngham.

[English]

[Copyist’s note.] This deed hath a seale att the copying the xxvth day
of July 1616.

[Marginal note.] his will was made he being in minority and not
knighted, and Sir William Plompton lately deceased.

[CB, 630]