WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 33 



and as the windows of the north aisle and south-east Chapel 

 are of the same size and shape, the glass may have been removed 

 from the former to its present position in the latter. Who this 

 Saint Barloke was has not yet been found out. 



We learn from this Will that in the year 1490 the testator's 

 youngest son Antony (afterwards Sir Antony Fitzherbert, Justice 

 of the Common Pleas) as yet had " no part of his father's goods 

 but his bare finding " only ; and his eldest brother John is 

 directed to pay him the sum of five marks per annum " towards 

 his exhibition at Court " {i.e., his studies at Gray's Inn), " upon 

 condition that he continue his learning at the same." This is 

 strong evidence that Antony was not that " Master Fitzherbert " 

 who in 1523 wrote the books of Husbandry and Surveying, 

 and who had then been an householder and exercised husbandry 

 for forty years. (See Journal D. A. cr-- N. H. S., vol. xix., pp. 

 96, 97 ; also an article on this subject in the English 

 Historical Revieiv for April, 1897). 



I subjoin a list of certain words in the Will the meaning of 

 which may not be apparent to all readers, with their explanation 

 as given in HalliivelVs Dictionary, and Giles Jacob's Law 

 Dictionary, etc. : — 



To the forgeyng = ad fabricandum, ad fabricam reparandum ; 

 fabricare = to forge. 



Raucester = ^ocester, Staffs. 



Crokesdon = Croxden, Staffs. 



Derley — Darley Abbey, near Derby. 



Bredpayne = probably a mistake for bedpayne, i.e., counterpane. 



In bredde = in breadth. 



My doughter Benct = Bendicta Bradburn, wife of testator's 

 eldest son, John Fitzherbert. 



Elne brodde = ell broad, the width of an ell. 



Bordcloth — tablecloth 



A maser=a bowl or goblet. 



A nutte harnessed = a silver-mounted coco-nut. 



Tuke = " tewke, to make purses of, trelis " [Halliivell) ; apparently 

 a kind of net or gauze. 

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