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By Amherst D. Tyssen, D.C.L., M.A. 355 



my execiitors distribute for the salvation of my soul amongst the poor in the 

 city of New Sarum on the day of my burial 100s. Also I bequeath to John 

 Swift my best belt mounted with silver. Also to Martius ('? Martin) Iron- 

 monger a small baslard mounted with silver. Also I bequeath to Adam 

 Caly one new vessel of the price of 5s. Also I further bequeath to each poor 

 bedridden person in the City of Sarum 2d. to pray for my soul. Also I 

 bequeath to John Palmer, junior, one copper vessel of the price of 6s. 8d. 

 Also I further bequeath to William Spicer, the chaplain, 40cZ., to pray for 

 my soul. Also 1 Betjtreath lo each chaplain in the Church of Saint Thomas, 

 Sarum, &d. to pray for my soul. Also to each chaplain of the Church of 

 Saint Martin 4td. to pray for my soul. Also I bequeath to the aforesaid 

 person Webbe {i.e.. Weaver), one copper vessel of the price of 6s. Also to 

 the repair of the Church of Saint Thomas of Winchester 20s. Also I will 

 that my executors below named dispose for me and in my name and in my 

 place together with John Swift, Ironmonger, of the goods and legacies of the 

 will of Thomas Sexteyn, to whom the aforesaid John Swift and I are executors 

 as fully and completely as I should provide if I were present in life in 

 exoneration of my soul. Also I will and ordain that the whole of that 

 messuage of mine with the appurtenances situated in the City of New Sarum 

 in Winchester Street between the tenement of Thomas Knoell on the northern 

 side and the roadway of Melmonger Street on the western side be sold by my 

 executors immediately after the death of Alice my wife and that the money 

 thence received be distributed and disposed for my soul and the aforesaid 

 souls in giving alms and performing other works of charity. The residue 

 truly of my goods not above bequeathed, my debts and legacies being dis- 

 charged, I bequeath one half to Alice my wife the other half truly of the 

 aforesaid goods I bequeath to my executors to dispose for the salvation of my 

 soul and of the aforesaid souls as to the same executors shall seem to profit those 

 souls better and more safely. And to fulfil well and faithfully the execution 

 of this my will I appoint make and constitute as executors Peter Brasier and 

 Thomas Wheoler and I appoint John Swift overseer of the same. And I 

 further will that there -be distributed by my executors above named out of the 

 money received arising from the sale of the aforesaid messuage to the bed- 

 ridden poor and needy in the free City of Sarum 50 pairs of blankets where 

 it shall seem to the same executors most suitable and necessary to give relief 

 and to profit my soul. And that there be distributed by the aforesaid 

 executors to the poor and needy wandering along the road below the aforesaid 

 city 60 pairs of shoes. And I will that after the decease of Alice my wife 

 they pay to the construction of the new chapel of the Church of Saint Edmund, 

 Sarum 40s. from the sale of the aforesaid tenement if in the meantime it 

 shall happen that the same chapel is constructed anew but if otherwise I will 

 that my aforesaid executors distribute the aforesaid 40s. for the salvation of 

 my soul. This testament was proved before us John Perche, commissioner, 

 etc., on the 2nd of the Ides of May in the year of the Lord the 1404th and 

 administration etc., was committed to one Thomas Wheler one of the 

 executors named in the said testament, power of administering being reserved 

 to one other executor by commission addressed to certain commissioners 

 Masters William Tholime, William Dunham, and Richard Willesden notaries 



