Will of Walter Paston

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Title
Will of Walter Paston
Reference
Add. 27446, f. 26
Date
18 August 1479
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol VI, item 950
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'

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WILL OF WALTER PASTON1

 

     IN Dei nomine, Amen. Ego, Walterus Paston, clericus,
         in bona et sana memoria existens, condo testamentum
         meum apud Norwicum xviiijo die mensis Augusti in
hunc modum. Inprimis lego animam meam Deo Omni-
potenti, Beatae Mariae et omnibus Sanctis, et corpus meum
ad sepeliendum in ecclesia Sancti Petri de Hundegate, coram
ymagine Sancti Johannis Baptistae. Item, lego summo altari
praefatae ecclesiae, iijs. iiijd. Item, lego reparacioni ecclesae
supradictae, ijs. vjd. Item, Fratri Johanni Somerton, bacha-
laureo, vs. Item, lego Magistro Edmundo unam togam
penulatam cum manicis de mynkys. Item, lego Roberto Wulff
unam togam viridem ——2 cum chamelet. Item, lego Roberto
Holand, filio spirituali, togam meam curtam. Item, lego
Magistro Roberto Hollar unam togam penulatam cum gray.
Item, lego Johanni Parker mantellum meum rubeum. Item,
lego Magistro Roberto Hollere unum pulvinar vocatum le
bolstar. Item, lego Magistro Edmundo Alyard unum pul-
vinar. Item, lego Ricardo Richardson unam togam penulatam
ad manus cum menyver. Item, volo quod residuum bonorum
meorum in Oxonia sit ad usum Magistri Edmundi Alyard,
sic quod solvat ......................1 Johanni Skelton et Thomae Coco.
Item, volo quod oves meae, quas habet Willelmus Bataly
senior in villa de Mawteby, dividantur equaliter inter fratrem
meum Edmundum Paston, et sororem meam Annam Yelver-
ton, et sororem meam Margeriam Paston, uxorem fratris mei
Johannis Paston. Item, lego terras et tenementa manerij mei
de Cressyngham, si possum dare, fratri meo Johanni Paston
armigero, sibi et haeredibus suis, sub condicione ista, quod si
contingat fratrem meum praedictum, Johannem Paston, esse
haeredem patris mei, quod nullo modo habeat terras et tene-
menta praedicta, sed quod frater meus Edmundus Paston
habeat terras et tenementa praedicta sibi et suis haeredibus.
Residuum vero bonorum non legatorum lego et do disposicioni
executorum meorum, ut et ipsi fideliter disponant pro anima
mea.

     Hujus autem testamenti mei executores condo per prae-
sentes, fratrem meum Johannem Paston, armigerum, pro ista
patria, et Magistrum Edmundum Alyard pro bonis meis
remanentibus Oxoniae.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] It will be seen by the next letter that Walter
Paston was dead before the 21st August 1479. This will was probably drawn up on
the very day he died, or just before.

     2 Blank in MS.

 

     1 Here occurs a short word, which is to me unintelligible. It seems to be written
’piuli.’

 

 

 

 

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