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

JOHN BARNET, OF LONDON, DRAPER, 1433.

[Gifts of 3s. 4d. each to 3 Churches, and of Gowns to poor Tenants. Blood-red gown to be sold for Testator's soul.]

(More, 3 Comy. Court of London, lf. CCC liijo.)

[lf. CCC liij]

Testamentum Iohannis Barnet. [In margin.]

In the name of god, Amen. The xvj day of the monyth of April, the yere of ouur lord Ihesu Crist Millesimo cccc xxxiij, I Ioℏn Barnet, Citezin and draper̛ of London̛, beyng in good mynde and in hool resoun̛, make my testament in forma sewyng̛: ffyrst I beqwethe my sovle to god Almyghty, and to hys moder the glorious virgyn ouur lady seynt Marye, and aƚƚ the holy seyntes of hevene, And my body to be beryed where the Avise is of myn executours. And I make myn executours, Marie my wyif, and my sone Richard, Marie to be evermore myn executrice principaƚƚ, [In margin, as to Executors, 'habent acquietanciam.'] And no thyng̛ to be dymened aȝens here wille. And I be-qwethe to the chirche of seynt Petris, iij s iiij d̛; and to Barnet chirche, [Barnet, in Middlesex, and Hertfordshire, 11 miles N. by W. of London.] iij s' iiij d̛; And to appsMonkes chirch,' [Monkenchurch or Monken (Monks') Hadley, now Hadley, adjoins Barnet, Middlesex, on the N.—Thorne's Environs of London, i. 265. See Notes, below.] iij s'

iiij d̛. Also I beqwethe to my poore tenauntes, my govnys [to] be partyd after the devys of myn executours aboveseyd, evericℏ of hem a govne. Also I wiƚƚ that my sangvyn govne be sold, & do for my sovle. In wytnesse of the whicℏ, I have put to this present testament my seal: wytnesse of this testament, sire Richard Seynour, Simond Cake, Richard Derby, clerk, Dated, ȝere & day aboveseyd. Probatum &c̘ coram I d. xxijo die Aprilis, Anno supradicto, & commissa Administracio executoribus & c̘.

Notes

• p. 93, l. 21. Monkes chirch. Monken Hadley, now Hadley.

  "The manor belonged to the Mandevilles till the middle of the 12th cent., when it was alienated by Geoffrey de Mandeville to the Abbey of Walden—whence the designation Monken (or Monks') Hadley."

  —Thorne, Environs of London, i 265.