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^l)f SSTtU of ^l)omas i3alJUigton, 

 of 'Btt^it, BtvhyjB. 



Extracted from the Records of the Prerogative Court of 



Canterbury, now preserved at the Probate 



Registry, Somerset House, London, 



by the late W. H. Hart. 



{Register Ayloffe, 18.) 



" In the name of oure Lord God Jhs. Amen. The xxiiij day of 

 Februare in the yere of our Lord God M' CCCCC. and xviij. 

 and in the yere of oure Soveraine Lord Kyng Henry the viij"" the 

 x'" 5 XlbomaS JBabl^nQtOn of Dethyke beyng as I truely beleve 

 the servaunt of God, and of goode and parfite mynde, and in 

 parfite love and charite with all the world, make my Testament 

 and last will in this wise as follouth : — First, I bequeth my soule to 

 God Almyghty, and to his blessid moder oure Lady Saint Mary, 

 and to all the hooly company of heven, and Saint John Baptist, 

 and Seint Thomas of Canterbury, to praye for me. And I will 

 my body be buryed in my parish church of Ashover nere my wif 

 Edith, if it fortune me to deceas within xx. myles of the same. 

 And ellf in such place as shalbe thought by them that shalbe 

 w' me at the tyme of my diceas ; But I will not that the Tombe 

 which I have made in the Church of Ashover be broken or hurt 

 for my carkas, but that it be leyde nere the same, and over that 

 place that I shall lye in, a stone with a scripture after myne 

 executors and supervisour myndis or the more parte of them to 

 be leyde. I bequeth my principall as the man^ and custome of 

 the cuntre is. And as to wax to be brynned aboute my carkas, 



