62 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



bothe my brothers ii yewes a pyce (piece). Item, 

 to my servant John Smyth one yew lambe (ewe- 

 lamb). Item, to John Parker one yew lambe. Item, 

 to my godchild Richard Shallow a trye lambe.* The 

 residue of all my goods, my debts paid, my will per- 

 formed, I give to Agnes my wyfe (wife), whom I do 

 ordeyn my soy 11 (sole) executrix, and Rich d - Salter 

 and Joe Smith my oversears, and they to have for 

 their paines xx d a pice (a piece)." In witness Nicholas 

 Kennedem (Vicar, who has made the will), John 

 Walshe, Nicholas Collins, and others, f 



Thus a Halting farmer in 1 549 left stock and house- 

 hold goods as legacies, and a sum of about .150 in 

 money. 



1 549. Nicholas Faireman, of Hartynge. 



" Item to the great alter of Hartynge for tythes 

 forgotten, iiij d - .... Item to John, my sonne, ii steeres, 

 ten shepe, a horse colt of ii yeres old, and a quarter of 

 barley. Item to Johann, my daughter, a cow, vi 

 shepe, and 'a quarter of barley." Rest to wife Joaner 

 Witness, Nicholas Kennet (Vicar), Thomas Barton, 

 John Welche, and others. 



8th Nov., 1540.$ Will of Nicholas Pytt, Hartynge. 

 "To the high alter of the s d - Church for tythes and 

 oblacons. forgotten, 4 d - Item to the herse light || there, 

 4 d - Item to the brotherhed of the same Church, one 

 bushel of wheat, and to the brotherhed of Petersfield 

 as much in malt." 



Trye : an old English word for choice, excellent ; from 

 French trier to choose, select. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, B. 20, 46. 

 " They fette him first the sweete wyn, 

 And mede eek in a maselyn, 



And royal spicerye ; 

 And gingebred that was ful fyn, 

 And lycorys and eek comyn, 

 With sugre that is so trye." 



J Vol. II., Wills, Consistory Court, Chichester, p. 94. 



% Vol. II., Wills, Consistory Court, Chichester, p. 149. 



|| Herse light = funeral lights. 



