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Author: Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court.
Title: Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London : A. D. 1387-1439 : with a priest's of 1454 / copied and edited from the original registers in Somerset House by Frederick J. Furnivall
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Transcribed from: Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London : A. D. 1387-1439 : with a priest's of 1454.
Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court.
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, ed.
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1964
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/EEWills

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CONTENTS.
dedication
FOREWORDS.
figure
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
1387. ROBERT CORN.
JN. PYNCHEON, 1392.
LADY ALICE WEST, OF HAMPSHIRE, 1395.
Will
Codicil
JOHN GIRDELER, 1402.
RICHARD ROOS, 1406.
JOHN PLOT (or ROUWENHOLE, or ROUWENHALE), 1408.
ROBERT AUERAY, 1410.
SIR WM. LANGEFORD, KNIGHT, 1411.
RICHARD YONGE, BREWER, OF LONDON, 1413.
THOS. WALWAYN, ESQ., OF MUCH MARCLE, HEREFORDSHIRE, 1415.
[Testament of the Personalty.]
[Will of the Realty in Feoffees' hands.]
[Codicil, in Latin.]
THOMAS BROKE, LANDOWNER, OF HOLDITCH, THORNCOMBE, DEVONSHIRE, 1417.
JOHN SOLAS, OF SOUTHWARK, SURREY, 1418.
JOHN CHELMYSWYK, ESQ., SHROPSHIRE, 1418.
THOMAS TVOKY, ESQUIRE, 1418.
STEPHEN THOMAS, OF LEE, ESSEX, 1417-18.
Latin Testament
English Will
[Codicil, made at Rouen.]
JOHN ROGERYSSON, OF LONDON, 1419-20.
JOHN BROUNE, OF HEN. V.'S CHAMBER, AND OF FULHAM, MIDDX., 1418. (PROOVD, 1420.)
THOMAS BATHE, OF BRISTOL, 1420.
JOHN OLNEY, OF WESTON, 1420. (PROOVD, 1422.)
LADY PERYNE CLANBOWE, 1422.
SIR ROGER SALWAYN, KNIGHT, OF YORK, 1420.
ROGER FLORE (OR FLOWER), ESQ., OF LONDON, AND OAKHAM, RUTLANDSHIRE, 1424-5.
Testament.
Codicil.
[I. Testament of the Personalty.]
[II. Will of the Realty.]
[III. Codicil. Oct. 1425. Abstract on p. 59.]
WILLIAM NEWLAND, OF LONDON AND NORMANDY, 1425.
WILLIAM DAVY, FISHMONGER, LONDON, 1426.
WM. HANYNGFELD, ESQ.,OF ESSEX AND SUFFOLK, 1426.
Testamentum.
Codicil.
JOHN CREDY, ESQ., OF LONDON, DEVONSHIRE, ETC., 1426.
JOHN TOKER, OF LONDON, VINTNER, 1428.
ROBERT SCHAPMAN, OF HARINGAY, MIDDLESEX, 1428.
RICHARD WHYTEMAN, OF LONDON, WAXCHANDLER, 1428.
WALTER NEWENT, ? OF ST. PANCRAS, LONDON, 1428.
HARY VAN SANDWYK, OF ST. CLEMENTS, LONDON, 1430.
ALYS CHIRCHE, WIDOW, OF ST. MARY HILL, LONDON, 1430.
RICHARD GRAVELEY, OF LONDON, GROCER, 1430.
WILLIAM FITZ-HARRY, OF COSIN LANE, LONDON, 1431.
RICHARD TYRELL, ? OF STOKE-DABERNON, SURREY, 1431.
ISABEL GREGORY, OF HACKNEY, 1431-2.
RICHARD GRAY, OF ST. BARTHOLOMEWS, LONDON, 1432-3.
JOHN BARNET, OF LONDON, DRAPER, 1433.
WALTER MANGEARD, COOK, OF LONDON, AND SUSSEX, 1433.
MARGARETE ASSHCOMBE, (ONCE BLONCIT) WIDOW, OF LONDON, 1434.
ROGER BORTON, OF HACKNEY, MIDDLESEX, 1434.
RAUF HETH, OF HACKNEY, MIDDLESEX, 1434.
ROGER ELMESLEY, A WAXCHANDLER'S SERVANT, LONDON, 1434.
ISABELLE DOVE, 1434-5.
RICHARD BOKELAND, ESQ., OF ALL-HALLOWS THE GREATER, THAMES ST., LONDON, 1436.
RICHARD DIXTON, ESQ., OF SISCETRE,GLOSTERSHIRE, 1438.
NICHOLAS CHARLETON, OF LONDON, SKINNER, 1439.
COUNTESS OF WARWICK, 1439.
SIR RALPH ROCHEFORT, 1439.
[Latin Testament of some Personalty.]
[English Will of the Real Estate and Residue of Personalty.]
SIR THOS. BROOK, KNIGHT, OF COBHAM, 1438-9.
NICHOLAS STURGEON, PRIEST, 1454.
reference to other wills
END NOTES.
Latin antiphon
English translation