Appendix XIII. Ixxxix 



Et similiter venerunt Robertus Brown et Johannes Bolytought executores 

 Exhibitio testamenti et ultimae voluntatis Aliciae Baxster viduae et protulerunt 



testamenti curiae hic praedictum testamentum et ultimam voluntatem dictae 



Aliciae cujus tenor sequitur in Anglicis verbis : — 

 In the name of God, Amen. The second daye of December in the fourth 

 yeare of the reign of oure Sovereign Lord Kyng Edwarde the Sixt, I Alys Baxster 

 wedowe beyng in wholl mynde and perfect remembraunce make my testament and 

 last will in this wise. First, I bequeth my soule to Almyghtie God and to all the 

 holy company of heaven, and my bodye to be buryed in the churcheyard of All 

 Seyntes in Multon. Item, I gyve and bequeth to Jone my yonger daughter 

 ii. keene and my grey mare colt and my sadill and a bridill. Item, my table 

 in the hall with the trestilles the fourme and oon chayer. Item, my best gown 

 and my best cortill, a payer of silver hookes and a sylver pynne. Item, a bedsted 

 a donge^ a bolster a payer of sheetes a payer of blankettes and a coveryng. Item, 

 a table cloth a brasse pott ii. pewter platters. Item, oon salt and oon candelstyke. 

 Item, a ketill bownd and a fryeng pann. Item, ii. newe hordes. Item, a skeppe 

 with beynn^. Item, a chesepresse. Item, oon booll. Item, my chyst and all my 

 dyte^ flax. Item, oon bason, a lewar* and oon stonde. Item, iiii. hennys and oon 

 cok and oon goose. Item, I gyve and bequeth to Robert Brown my godson oon 

 cowe to be delyvered to his father immedyatly after my deceasse. Item, I gyve 

 and bequeth to Jone Brown my doughter oon cowe and my medill brasse pott and 

 oon ketill bound. Item, a payer of sheetes, oon blankett and a pelowe of teake. 

 Item, oon table cloth, ii. newe hordes and a planke. Item, a bellecandelstyk and 

 a salt. Item, I gyve to the seid Jone my cart and ii. payer of cart harnesse and 

 my rownde table and a skeppe with beyn^. Item, oon saltyng trough and my 

 second best gown and all my undyte flax a ley^ trough and ii. hennys. Item, 

 I gyve and bequeth to Edmond Brown my sonnylawe my leasse that I have in 

 Hornynges Closse and a sadle. Item, I gyve and bequeth to Alys Norton my 

 goddaughter oon cowe to be delyvered immediatlye after my deceasse. Item, 

 I gyve and bequeth to Maryon Norton my doughter oon ketill of iii. gallons 

 and a start" pan oon payer of sheetes oon blankett and a pillowe of teake. Item, 

 my frocke and my petycote and my newe smokke and a yard of newe cloth. 

 Item, ii. newe hordes. Item, I gyve to my seid doughter Marion oon cowe and 

 ii. hennys. Item, I gyve and bequeth to Thomas Baxster my sonne my mare 

 and horsfoole and my plough and all my harnesse and xiij. that he doth owe 

 to me. Item, my quernes and my knedyng trough. Item, I gyve to Elizabeth 

 Baxster my belchilde oon bullok of oon yere old. Item, my mynde and will is 

 that if Thomas my sonne doth trouble or lett this my last will then I will he shall 

 have no legett nor no part therof. Item, I gyve and bequeth to Alys Bert my 

 goddaughter oon bullok of oon yere old. Item, i. ketill of ii. gallons oon newe 

 pewter disshe and a coffer. Item, my mynde and will is that all my corne in the 

 berne be geven among poore people. Item, my mynde and will is that iii. keene 

 iii. store pigges and my hey in the berne be sold by myn executourz to paye 

 my dettes and other charges. Item, my mynde and will is that all the rest of 

 moveable goodes not bequethed I gyfif them to Jone Browne and Marion Norton 

 evenlye to be devyded by myne executourz. These witnesse, Thomas Home, 

 Robert Clerk, and John Tite. 



Et iidem executores protulerunt et exhibuerunt curiae hic inventorium omnium 

 et singulorum bonorum catallorum et debitorum praedictorum quae fuerunt prae- 



^ A mattress. ^ Hive with bees. ^ Dight = prepared for use. 



"* Probably same a§ ' layer,' a basin or water-jug. Cf. Murray, Eng. Diet. 

 ^ Lye. e Hanaie. 



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