38 WILL OF ELIZABETH FITZHERBERT, OF NORBURY. 



in whose handf that eu they come. And that my feoffes stand & be seased 

 of the said Man§ landf & tenementf to my behove duryng my lyffe, & af? 

 my discease that they make suche estate to myn eldest sone & heir' of the 

 same as discended to me fro my father for suche estate as discended to me, 

 I wull shal be made to hym & in non other man chaunged by taill nor other 

 wyse. but I wull all way that suche wyll as my husbond Rauffe ffitzherbert 

 made, stand, & be in his strenght this my will not w'stondyng. Also where 

 my seid husband by his last wylle wold that landf & tenementf in Norbury 

 & Rossyngton to the yerely value of xx"^ m^rs shulde be diuided among his 

 yonge sunes for terme of lyffe, And that diuision to be hadde by the 

 discrescion of his executours as in his seid wille more playnly appereth, of the 

 whiche executours, I am on — this is myn advice & councell And assent 

 that the seid xx m'rs be diuided vnder this forme, that is to witte, that my 

 sonnes Henry Richard Will^m & antony have nowe forthw' eSy of them 

 v m^rs to the tyme the seid Richard be pferred to sii comaundre, And afV 

 my discease I wull that my sonne Jolin suffer my seid sonnes pesable to haue 

 iiij oxgangf of land purchesed by my seid husband & me in sedsall, orelles 

 that he make them sure for terme of thir lyves And landf & tenementf 

 to the yerely value of iiij m='rs o9 all charges at the lib«"'te of the seid John 

 And when the seid Richard my soS is pferred to a co^undre or yf he discease 

 by fore that tyme, then I wull & gyffe myn assent that the seid landf of the 

 whiche the seid Richard shall take the pfett be diuided in this forme, that is 

 to witt xxvi^. viij*^. to the seid Will^m for hne of his lyffe & liij^ & iiijd. to the 

 seid Antony my sonne for terme of his lyffe so that my seid sone Henry 

 shall haue for fme of hys lyfte landf & tenementf to the yerely value of vj 

 m'rs, Will'^m for Ime of his lyffe viij m^rs. And Antony for fme of his lyffe 

 X m^rs. Also I require my seid so8 John ffitzherbert that he make vnto 

 my soH Antony a sufficient & lawefull graunt of landf & tenementf, or elles 

 of rentf to the cler' yerely value of v m'rs toward his exhibicion att court 

 appon condicion that he contynue his lernyng at the same & elles to hold 

 hym content w' x m*rs when it ffalleth, the whiche so to do & pforme, my 

 seid son John hathe pmysed before my sonnes Thomes Babyngton Thomas 

 Purfrey the seid Antony ffitzherbert Robert Jakes & other. Also I wull that 

 my seid ft'eoffes retenne & kepe in their handf landf & tenementf to the 

 yerely value of xx^ to fynd an obet yerely at Norbury for my seid husbondf 

 soule, my soule, our fathers & Mothers & all criaten soules. And that the 

 seid xx^ be disposed in this wyse : — furst to e9y Prest ther' being at derige & 

 masse iiij''. And to e9y cherk (sic) ther being j'*. And that at remaineth oO 

 at eny tyme to be wared in bredde & diuided among the pore pichons of 

 Norbury by the discrescion of my seid son & heir' & curate of the Church 

 for the tyme ther being. And yf eny contrarnesse difficulte or doute fall in 

 construccion or exposicion of eny pts of this my wille, I wull that the same 



