90 WILL OF SIR HENRY VERNON, OF HADDON. 



haue made a byll w' myne owne hands here in closed the one 

 halfe or all in redy money and ells the other halfe in Cattell 

 ou^ ther hole yere wages whiche I wyll they have aff my 

 deceasse whether that they tary or deparle / Itm I wyll that 

 my houshold be kept to gether by the space of a yeare att my 

 Son Richerds charge of mete and drynke and yff any of them 

 wyll departe and go hys way myne executors shall pay them 

 ther wages besyds ther reward afore grauntyd / Itm I wyll that 

 my Son Richerd haue C' to se that he breke no parte of thys 

 my wyll / Itm I wyll that my Son Richerd haue xij Oxen xij 

 kyne and ij of the best wayns and althyngs apperteynyng to 

 them / Itm I wyll that my sayd Son haue C ewys C wedders 

 (wether sheep) and my best horse next the Churche* / Itm I 

 wyll that my Son Humfrey haue vj Oxen and vj kyne and my 

 doughter Mary as many / Itm I wyll that my doughter Margarett 

 my son Richerds wyffe haue Ixxx ewys to move my son hyr 

 husband that he breke no parte of this my wyll and also a paier 

 of beds of Coralef gawdet w' sylu' and gylt to pray for my Soule / 

 I wyll that eu'y of my Sonnys haue a horse / Itm the Resydew 

 of all my goods nott bequethyd my detts payde my Chappell 

 made and my tombe I wyll be evynly distributed betwixt my 

 sonnys Arthure and John forsen (provided) allway that my detts 

 be payd of the hole / Itm I wyll that all the blakeworke at my 

 boles go to the performyng of my wyll except the bole wallys 

 and as moche blakeworke as wyll keuer the blokkys of the bolej 



* Customary gifts or Mortuaries to the incumbent of a parish church, claimed 

 on the death of his parishioners for the recompense of personal tithes and offer- 

 ings not duly paid in their life time, which, before the statute of 21 Henry 

 VIII., were paya^ile in Beasts. After the Conquest a Mortuary was called a 

 cors-present, because the beast was presented with the body at the funeral. 

 So early as Henry III. it became an established custom ; insomuch that the 

 bequest of Heriots and Mortuaries were held to be necessary ingredients in 

 every testament of chattels. 



t A pair of Beads or Necklaces of Coral adorned with silver. 

 A pair of bedes, black as sable, 

 She toke and hynge my necke about, 

 Upon the gaudes all without. 



Go2ve>''s " Confessio Aiiiantis.'' 



X Bole, to Innn again properly. Boles are places where, in ancient time, 

 the miners melted and refined their lead ore. 



