By Amherst D. Tyssen, D.C.L., M.A. 353 



& animabus supradictis in elemosinis dandis & aliis operibus caritatis faciundis 

 distribuatur & disponatur. Residuum vero bonorum rneorum superius non 

 legatorum debitis & legatis meis perimpletis unam medietatem lego Alicia 

 uxori mee alteram vero medietatem bonorum prsedictorum lego executoribus 

 meis ad disponendum pro salute anime mee & animarum antedictarum prout 

 iisdem executoribus animabus illis melius & salubrius videbitur expedire Et 

 ad execution em istius testamenti mei bene & fideliter perimplendam ordino 

 facio & constituo executores Petrum Brasier & Thomam "Wheoler et super- 

 visorem ejusdem ordino Johannem Swyft et ulterius volo quod per executores 

 meos prsenotatos distribuantur de pecunia recepta de venditione messuagii 

 prsedicti proveniente pauperibus egenis lecto jaeentibus in civitate Nove 

 Sarum quinquaginta paria de blanketts ubi iisdem executoribus magis 

 idoneum & necesse videbitur prodesse & anime mee expedire Et quod 

 distribuantur per executores prsedictos pauperibus egenis per viam vagantibus 

 infra civitatem praedictam sexaginta paria socularum Et volo quod post 

 decessum Alicie uxoris mee delibrant fabrice nove capelle de ecclesia sancti 

 Edmundi Sarum xl^ de venditione tenementi supradicti si interim contigerit 

 ipsam capellani de novo construi sui autem volo executores mei prsedicti 

 distribuant prsedictos xl' pro salute anime mee. Probatum fuit hoc testa- 

 mentum coram nobis Johanne Perche Commissario etc. ii Idus Maii anno 

 domini millesimo quadragentessimo quarto Et commissa est administratio 

 etc cuidam Thome Wheler uni executorum in dicto testamento nominatorum 

 reservata potestate administrandi uni alii executori per commissionem 

 directam quibusdam c {i.e., commissariis) magistris Willelmo Tholime & 

 Willelmo Dunham ac Ricardo Wyllesden notariis publicis administrationem 

 hujusmodi Et habent quindenam trinitatis ad exhibendum inventorium 

 [plane & plane sine ulterior! dilatione Et subsequenter videlicet vicesimo 

 septimo die mensis Augusti Anno domini millessimo cccc""" sexto dictis 

 ; commissariis acquietantur executores supradicti in forma, etc. 



Having thus produced the will in the original latin, I will next 

 [give a literal translation of the same in English : — 



Translation. 



In the name of God, Amen. On Friday the vigil of the Purification 

 'of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the year of the Lord the HOS"", I John 

 Barbor Brasier citizen of the city of New Sarum with due meditation con- 

 jSidering that the feeble condition of human nature placed in this valley 

 of misery is subject to so many and so great dangers and troubles especially 

 since nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain, whatever 

 one wills or nills, it becomes everyone to enter upon its paths wishing now to 

 provide beforehand as far as is conceded by the Supreme Arranger of all 

 things, unwilling also to leave undisposed of my goods now conferred upon 

 me by God, I order my testament concerning my goods to His honour and 

 praise and arrange it in this wise — First indeed I give and commend my soul 

 to the Most High my Creator who redeemed it on the cross with his precious 

 blood and to the glorious virgin Mary his mother and all his saints that they 

 may deign to receive the same into everlasting bliss when it shall have 



