NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 227 
white loaf and a penny of silver. On the seventh day after, both 
priests and clergy to have on the same manner, and the poor folk 
as before. 
To the Cathedral Churches of Our Lady at Coventry, and of 
St. Chad, at Lichfield, r2d. each. To Darley Abbey, for requiem, 
tod. To Blackfriars Derby, Burton Abbey, Convent of Tutbury, 
Croxden, Deulacres, Repton, Ulverscroft, Lichfield Friars, 
Stafford Friars (both orders), 10d. each for a trentall of masses. 
To the Eremites, or Austin friars of Newark, and to every 
house of that order in England, and to every Charterhouse (z.e., 
Carthusian Monastery) rod. forsame. To the Abbot of Rocester 
12d., and to every chantry there 4d. To the ringers of bells there 
8d. Tothe Prior of Colwich r2d. To every chantry there 4d. 
To the ringers there 6d. 
After providing for the payment of just debts, the testator pro- 
ceeds with his bequests. 
To Norbury Church 20 marks to buy a cope of velvet, and a 
vestment branched of one colour. 
To making the stone bridge at Rocester, if made of mason 
work, 40s. ; to be bestowed in getting up the sandstone out of the 
water, and laid upon the ground to give men courage to perform 
the remainder. 
To every servant their full wages, and (except priests) to have 
“6 ewe shepe hoggs if I decesse before Christmas, such as then 
be shorne, at their own choice ; the longest service to have first 
choice, and so on by order ; and if I decesse after they be shorne, 
and before Christmas, then to have the same sixe shepe called 
theaves.” 
The said priests 13s. 4d. to say dirige each evening, and a mass 
on the morrow. 
To his daughter Elizabeth, a little goblet of silver and gilt, with 
a cover, and his black beads ; a feather bed, bolster, pair of sheets, 
2 blankets, a coverlet, a covering of verdure,* “ the worst mattress 
of five the best a bolster,” a pair of sheets, 2 blankets, 2 coverlets; 
t of white, another of color, the best beneath the hall. 
* Verdure, an old term for tapestry. 
