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Item I give unto the vicar of Chesulden tenne shillings Item I give and 

 bequeathe unto Nicholas Stephyns Jerome and Richard my sonnes to every of 

 them one hundreth poundes and one hundreth shepe the w ch some and shepe to 

 be delyvered when they come to lawful age, And yf it fortune that one of the 

 foresaid my sons do Departe before he doth Receyve his legacies, Then I will his 

 Legacie equally be devided betwixt thother twayn that be alive Item I give 

 Richarde my son the Lease of the parsonage of Swindon and he to enjoie it 

 when he is of lawful age Item I give unto my son Thomas Stephyns daughters 

 to every of them twentie pounds Item I give unto Jane York my doughter 

 Tenn poundes Item I give unto Robert Maskulyne and Jane Maskulyne to 

 every of them vj K xiij s iiij fi Item I give unto George Maskulyne and Agnes 

 Chatterton my syster to every of them iiij 1 ' vj s viij d Item I give unto Hughe 

 Myddelhurst Thomas Ryve William Starte to every of them xl N . Item I give 

 unto all my other servants both men and women to every of them vj s viij d Also 

 I give unto my sonne Thomas servauutes to every of them vi s viij d Item I 

 give unto John Austen one cowe Item I give unto my godchildren to every of 

 them one shepe. Item I give unto William Waldron xx u The rest of my goodes 

 not given nor bequest so that my debts and legacies paied I give them unto 

 Joane my wiefe and Thomas my sonne, whom I ordeyn and make my Executors 

 of this my last will and testament Witness hereof Roger Colley Thomas 

 Hynton James Hall James Doberlowe w l other Item I ordeyn and make Roger 

 Colley Thomas Hinton James Hall supvisors and to have for their labor every 

 of them fourtie shillings. 



(Administration, " ad viam intestati," was granted, 2 May, 1553, of the 

 testator's estate, to Joan, the relict, she and her son Thomas, the executors, 

 having, for certain causes, renounced the burden of execution.) 



Particulars of his Berkshire estate are supplied by an : — 



Inquisition indented, taken at Abyngdon, co. Berks, 2 April, 6 Edward VI., 

 before Vincent Power, escheator of Oxford and Berks, after the death of Thomas 

 Stephyns, gent. The said Thomas Stephyns, and Johan Stephyns his wife, were 

 seised, the day before his death, of the manor of Inglesham, co. Berks, with its 

 appurtenances, and of 10 messuages, 3 tofts, 2 cottages, 1 water mill, 200 a. land, 

 140 a. meadow, 120 a pasture, 4 a. wood, and 20 a. gorse and marsh, with 

 26*. 7c?, rent, in Inglesham and Nether Inglesham, co. Berks, and also of the 

 advowson of the church of Inglesham and of the vicarage, in demesne as of fee 

 and of frank tenement respectively. She survived him, and is now living at 

 Inglesham, the reversion of the premises belonging to Thomas Stephyns of 

 Chesildon, his son and heir. The said manor, &c, are held of the king in chief, 

 by service of half a knight's fee, and payment of 33*. Id. yearly, and are worth 

 14£. 14*. 3d. clear per annum. The said Thomas Stephyns died (> Sept. last 

 (1551), and Thomas Stephyns of Chesildon, his son and heir was 27 years old 

 and more at his said father's death. (" Escheators Inquisitions," Series II.. 

 Oxford and Berks, 6 Edw. VI., No. 3.) 



Thomas Stephens, the heir, in the seventy years of his life, 



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