WILL OF THOMAS WANDSWOETH. 355 



ben my keper all the time of my sickness. Also I bequeath to 

 to Master Greorge Eollys wbicli Master Eoollys and TLurstance 

 bickmans I make my executors and geue tbem all the residewe 

 of my goodes and debtes equally to deuide betwixte them excepte 

 that I geue to John Mondy and his wife xx^whiche remainethein 

 the hands of my Curate of my benefice in Seinte Martins. And 

 also I geue to Master Clarke Proctor of the Arches to help to se 

 my Will performed fine markes. Also I geue to John Chambers 

 xxxiij** iiij''. In Witnes whereof I have caused this to be made 

 the dale and yere aboue rehersed and delivered it in the presence 

 of B-ichard Staueley John Withall Greorge EoUe withe other. 



Sexto die februarij Anno dni Millesimo Quingentesimo quarto 

 emanavit Commissio Eicardo Mundye Consanguineo predicti 

 defuncti ad administrandum bona jura et Credita eiusdem defuncti 

 juxta vltimam suam hujusmodi voluntatem ad viam intestati de- 

 cedentis eo quod Georgius Roll Executorum vnus ab hac luce 

 Migravit antequam onus Execiitoris in se assumpsit etThristramus 

 (^sic) hickman alter Executuam onus Executionis testamenti 

 huinsmodi renuciavit de bene et fideliter administrando eodem ac 

 de pleno Inventorio inde Exhibendo necnon de plutoe Computo 

 inde reddendo ad Sancta dei Evangelia Jurat. (Harrington, 56. 

 P. C. C.) 



Since the foregoing was set up in type we have obtained further 

 information respecting Thomas Wandesworth, which tends to con- 

 firm our conjecture as to the derivation of his name of Wandes- 

 worth, and shews the circumstances in which he became Prior of 

 Bodmin. It illustrates, also, in a remarkable manner, the con- 

 nection which existed between him and Nicholas Prideaux. 



On 4th June, 1576, a Commission was appointed to administer 

 certain Interrogatories concerning leases granted by Thomas 

 Wandesworth, alias Monday, of the Tithes of St. Minver, 

 Padstow, and Cubert, on behalf of Eoger Prideaux, Esq. 



It will be better, we think, to give the depositions, made in 

 reply to these interrogatories, so far as they relate to the circum- 

 stances connected with the Election of Prior Wandesworth, 

 verbatim. John Tiler, of the County of Devon, Yeoman, aged 

 66 years, sayeth : that he knew Thomas Monday alias Wandes- 

 worth, late Prior of Bodmin, and Nicholas Prideaux : and. 



