NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 233 
The executors and surveyors to have full power to construe any 
apparent contradictions in the will, “‘or the most pte of them the 
which every man aftr my reason and consyence may well perceyve 
and considr what I meyne by the same.” 
He appoints his brother Anthony, his cousin Richard Cotton, 
and his servant Cristofer Abell executors. 
And his brother Doctor,* and his well-beloved nephew Anthony 
Babyngton to be overseers. 
And for reward each is to have 5 marks and one of his best 
young horses. 
And the recoverers to have each a young horse and all their 
expenses out of the estate. 
Witnesses :—Sir John Draycott Knight, Philip Draycott his son, 
Roger Bentley parish priest of Norbury, William Botham chantry 
priest of Norbury, Robert Whythalgh chantry priest of Norbury, 
Sir Roger Roose parson of Ridware Hampstall, William Marshall 
priest, Ralph Parker priest, William Whythalgh, Robert Gerves, 
Henry Cotton, Hugh Cowper, and Richard Clerke of Ridware 
aforesaid, Nicholas Browne of Abbot’s Bromley, and many others. 
Written at Norbury, and sealed and signed by John Fitzherbert, 
May 12th, in roth year of Henry VIII. Delivered to Richard 
Cotton. 
To this will a codicil was added on January 3rd, in the 12th 
year of Henry VIII. 
Therein he recites that, whereas his former will left £200, 
4100 to heir of Henry, and £100 to heir of his daughter Eliza- 
beth, now therefore—“ Insomuch as my Broder Henry hath no 
heyr male nowe being alyve nor non ys lyke to have, wherfor yf 
he soo dye havyng no issue male then I will that that hundred 
pounds rest unpayde. No payment thereof to be made to any 
man for any other cause, the premisses in the will aforsayd not 
withstanding. And the sayde hundred pounds the which I 
bequethed to the heyr male of my sayde daughter Elyzabeth to the 
intent aforsayde in the sayde will. Now I remembryng that the 
* Thomas Fitzherbert, D.C.L., Rector of Norbury (up to 1518) and North 
Wingfield, and precentor of Lichfield. 
