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Proceediugs of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Chillam and testator's said wife to be executors. Witnesses, Thomas 

 Squyer, chaplain, Hugh Chillam, and others. 



He leaves all his lands, messuages, and tenements in the town of 

 Clone (Cloyne),^ and elsewhere in the co. Cork, to Walter, son of 

 Thomas Codde, his brother, in fee. 



Proved before Master llichard Talbot, commissary general of 

 Richard Talbot, archbishop of Dublin, in the cathedral church of 

 S. Patrick, Dublin, 12th Jan., 1438, and probate granted to the 

 executors. Sealed with the seal of the commissary ship. 



{In clorso). — " The dedys of y^ house y* Waltere Ewstace^ dwellith 

 in y^ bridge street, and of y^ annuall rent y^ crychurche doyth 

 chaulanche." 



22. (831) Will of ALEXA.KDER Beswice, merchant, dated 

 1533. To be buried in S. Clere's chapel, in S. Audoen's 

 1533. church. The proctors of the church to pay the arrears 

 of their wages to the Mary priest and clerk there, for 

 service for his soul at S. Clere's altar. He establishes a perpetual 

 obit^ for himself and Alson Eitzsymon, his wife. 40s. to sir James 

 More, chaplain of S. Audoen's, to pray for him. Leaves 4/. 3s. 4id. to 

 the proctors . . to the poor people of Manchester parish . . . honest 

 priests to sing at S. Clere's altar for four years, each to have 8 marks. 

 The poor to have bread at his burial to the value of 5^^. Mentions 

 Henry Gree of Westchester, merchant, and Edward Abarte of Man- 

 chester. His mother-in-law to have a scarlet kirtell cloth. James 

 Abarte and Katherine . . } 20s. Mentions his five children and his 

 brother, William Beswicke. Appoints his wife and son, William 

 Beswicke, executors, and Mcholas Queytrot, overseer. 



The document is an exemplification of the above by Robert 

 Eitzsymon, official of the court of Dublin {sede vacante^) made at 

 the request of the gild of S. Anne and the proctors of S. 

 Audoen's. 



^ See Pipe Ptoll of Cloyne diocese, cir, 1364, ed. Dr. Caulfield, in which there is 

 frequent mention of the Codde family, which had been settled in the vicinity of 

 Cloyne from very early times. 



2 Lease of premises in Bridge-street to Walter Eustace, a.d. 1315. {Christ 

 Church Deed, No. 1122). 



3 See No. 12. 

 ^ Illegible. 



^ The See of DubHn was vacant between 28 July, 1534, and 12 March, 1534/5. 



