94 NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. 



to the foresaid Margaret my wif, to haue and enioy to hir as hir 

 propre goods for eu'mor : and I gave and biqueth to Nicholas 

 my Sonne, and to Agnes and Cecill my daugliters, the other half 

 of the foresaid residue to haue and enioy to them as y' propre 

 goods for eu'mor : and I will that the foorseid Margerete my wif 

 cause that the same other halftrudele (true half share) of the 

 same residue of all my said goods for my said childreyn be 

 employed in merchaundise to the behofe and for the most avayle 

 and profile of my said childryn vnto the tyme they com to ther 

 lawfull ages or tyll they be mariede :' and I will that all the same 

 merchaundises of the said halfendele of the said residue for my 

 said childryn w'' all the avayle and encrece comyng and growing 

 of the same m'chaundise be deliu'ed to my seid childryn when 

 that they com to ther said ages or when that they be maried and 

 I make and ordeigne the foresaid Margaret my wif executrice of 

 this my p'nt testament: and I ordeyn my welbeloved neve w Sir 

 Walter Hungerford Knyght supviso' of the same my testament. 

 Thes witnesses : Sir Thomas Williams pson of the church of 

 Saint Andrew abovesaid, D.ime Kateryn Lady la Ware widow, 

 Richard Parnam, Cristofer Rawlynson, Cristofer Dalton, Robert 

 Leget, scryvan' and others. Yoven at London at the day and 

 yere above saide." 



" Probatum fuit suprascriptuni Testamentum coram diio apud 

 Lambith xii die mensis Junii anno dni Millimo CCCC nonogesimo 

 primo (1491) Hilarii &c. jurament' Dni Thome Williamson Cap"' 

 & Rici Barnam testum ac approbalim &c. festu Sancti Anne &c. 

 nee non de piano compoto &c. ad Sancta, Dei euangelia, 

 jurate, &c." 



The "Records of the Borough of Nottingham " (ii. 271) present 

 us with a little incident connected with this gentleman in his 

 younger days, when the honours of knighthood did not impress 

 upon him the responsibility of his position, and the weight of his 

 example: "Anno 1468 — Long Row. The Tithingmen there 

 present that Nicholas Strelley Esquire made an affray with blood- 

 shed upon William Forster, serjeant at mace in common market : 

 fined 40s."— but perhaps the sergeant deserved it. It seems to 



