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-the arrears to the use & maryage of Jane Fitzherbert my bastard 
daughter. I remit thys matter to my broder Justice for he knows 
hit frome the beygynnyng to the indying praying hym to be 
good to the poor wenche.” 
Also, he gives to Nicholas Abell an ‘“‘ amblyng” mare anda 
trotting mare, and to his Brother Justice six coloured and six 
white mares, and two stallions, and their foals as heir looms. 
“Also I wyll that Jane Fitzherbert my bastard daughter have 
all such stuff of household as I have at the parsonage. 
** Also I wyll have my executors make a table of the trinitie* 
on the altar benethe the stepull and a litle coffer benethe the arch 
of the same chapell for the ornaments belongyng to the same. 
* Also I wyll that my exors make restitution to John Cowhopp 
of Roddsley for wrong done by me xxs.” Other small bequests 
are :—To make Ellaston bells, 20s.; to make the chantry house, 
20s.; to our Lady of Eveley and St. Stephen, of Hatton, 35. 4a. 
each ; to Sir Nicholas Dakin, of Clysseton, 1os., to say mass, ete. ; 
to make Welen (?) Bridge, 10s.; to Brother Justice, the best 
chamlet gown, and a piece of velvet lately bought at London; to 
Philip Draycott, a piece of black chamlet, from London; to — 
Mellor, a heifer, beside his own cow. “ And when afore tyme for 
diverse causes and grudges that I hadd agaynst my said brother 
Anthony Fitzherbert I had put hym out of my wyll & wold not 
that he shuld be any of my Executors for the which causes not- 
withstanding I wyll specially of all men y‘ he shalbe my principall 
executor & put hym most in trust to execute thys my wyll for in 
my conscience he & his heyres be most worthy to do for me.” 
Cousin Roland Babingtont+ and Cousin John Fitzherbert, Vicar of 
Dovebridge, were the other executors, to have five marks, and a 
young horse each, and all their expenses. 
* This means a carved or painted reredos emblematical of the Trinity. The 
usual way of representing the Trinity at this date was by a venerable seated 
figure for God the Father, bearing in front of Him the Son on the Cross, with 
the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, resting on one of the arms of the Cross. 
7 Roland Babington was, strictly speaking, nephew, and not cousin of the 
testator ; but the term ‘‘ cousin” was used to imply almost any relationship. 
Roland was one of the younger brothers of Anthony Babington, mentioned 
elsewhere in the will, and fourth son of Thomas B., of Dethick, by his wife 
Edith, sister of the testator. 
