78 The Will of Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, A.D, 1342. 
Superuisores vero eiusdem mee vol- 
untatis vltime ordino constituo et ee 
volo dilectissimos michi socios et Amicos 
confidentissimos Willm Darell Scuti- 
ferum et Magistrum Johannem Hody 
Cancellarium meum. Et si contingat 
supradictorum executorum meorum ali- 
quem officium administracionis huius- 
modi refutare qd absit qd ipe caritatis 
intuitu et mee huiusmodi singularis 
confidencie pretextu velit ex corde cete- 
rorum meorum executorum adminis- 
tracioni fauorabiliter assistere et eos 
toto posse defendere et fauere. Arcuis 
quo valeam admonens et finaliter volens 
vt in admistracionibus bonorum meo- 
rum agenda queque statuenda vendenda 
disponenda et administranda ex comuni 
deliberacione executorum meorum oim 
aut saltem maioris saniorisque partis 
eorum consensu pariter et assensu pro- 
cedant Et que nec aliter gesta fea aut 
Moreover, of this my last Will, I 
appoint, and constitute, and desire to be 
Supervisors, my very dear companions 
and most trusted friends, William 
Darell,* Esquire, and Master John 
Hody,t my Chancellor; and if it should 
happen that any of my above-mentioned 
executors should refuse to discharge the 
duty of administering the same, which 
God forbid ! I desire that he, well-know- 
ing my love, and by reason of this my 
special confidence in him, will cordially 
favour and assist the administration of 
the rest of my executors, and that he 
will do all he possibly can to help and 
defendthem. As earnestly as I possibly 
can, I warn,and finally desire,that what- 
ever has to be done, determined, sold, 
disposed of, and administered in the 
administration of my property, may 
proceed according to the joint delibera- 
tions of all my executors, or, at anyrate, 
* Probably the first Darrell, of Littlecote, who married Elizabeth Calston, 
heiress of Thomas Calston, of that place. 
She was baptized 1401, and proved 
herself of age at the suit of William Darrell, 1415, and died 1464. Her son, 
George, died 1474. George was twice married—by his first wife he was great- 
grandfather of Jane Seymour, mother of Edward VI., and by his second wife 
had an heir :— 
Edward. 
| 
Edward. Chamberlain to Katharine of 
Arragon. Died 1549. 
John. 
| 
Will Darrell. 
Killed in Picardy. 
Who was succeeded by 
Judge Popham. 
See Society in Elizabethan Era, by Hubert Hall, p. 186. 
+ John Hody, Precentor of Wells, 1410. Prebendary of Warminster, in Sarum 
diocese, 1424. Chancellor of Wells, 1426—39. Canon of York, 1426. Arch- 
deacon of Dorset, 1436. He was uncle to Sir John Hody, Lord Chief Justice of 
England temp. Henry VI. His brother, Thomas Hody, had an estate at Kington 
Magna, Dorset, and was the King’s Escheator for that county, 6 Henry IV. 
See Jones’ Fusti. 
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