Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London : A. D. 1387-1439 : with a priest's of 1454 / copied and edited from the original registers in Somerset House by Frederick J. Furnivall

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Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court.

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Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910

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London: Oxford University Press

1964

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"Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London : A. D. 1387-1439 : with a priest's of 1454 / copied and edited from the original registers in Somerset House by Frederick J. Furnivall." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/EEWills. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2025.

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ROBERT SCHAPMAN, OF HARINGAY, MIDDLESEX, 1428.

[Moveables to Wife. Gifts to Haringay Church, and Trinity Chapel there; to God-children, High-ways, Daughter, and Priest to sing for Testator's soul.]

(More, 3 Commissary Court of London, lf. 203 B.)

[lf. 203 B.]

[H]aringey. Testamentum Roberti Schapman. [In margin.]

[ Hornsey, Middlesex, N. of London. There's a Haringay Park there now. (The leaf is not numberd in due order in the MS.)]

In dei nomine Amen̛. I Robert Schapman, in Rithe mynde, make my testement in this forme. I be-quethe my sowle to god, to yowre [so] lady Lady, and to Alle þe holy compani of heuen; my bodi to be berijt in the chirchau [Churchyard.] of houre La[dy] of Harryngey. Also I bequethe to my wyfe alle þe goodis þat be meuablis, and sche to be my prinsepall seccutur, with Gefori London and Thomas Howe, þey to dispose þe goodis for me like as my [for 'they'] wole anscwere to-fore gode atte þe day of gogement [ Judgment.] : furst to þe hihe auter, xij d̛; to þe secutours of Robert Childe, v s'; to heuery of my gode childrin xij d̛ [ In margin (as to the Executors), 'habent Acquietanciam.'] ; and to a prest for to singe for me and aƚƚ cristin soulis, competent saleri for an hole here [= yere] [Cp. youre for houre, our (Lady) above.] ; to heu[er]i of my secutoris, v s'.; to hie weyis, vj s' viij d̛; to the keuering̛ of the trinite schapell of Haringey, vj s' viij d̛; to my dowter, xl. s'. In cuius rei testimonium, sigillum apposui. Datum in Haringey, Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo octauo, primo die mensis Nouembris. vjto Iduum Nouembris probatum fuit; & com[missa] Executoribus Anno domini Ml cccco xxviij.

Notes

p. 80, l. 15. quadringentesimo octauo. Between these two words, vicesimo must have been left out by the copier. The Will is dated 1428, and was undoubtedly made in the year of the testator's death.

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