Lincoln diocese documents, 1450-1544
Andrew Clark

XLIII: Will, 1535, of Richard Baven, of Wooburn, Buckinghamshire.

*. [From bishop John Longland's Register of Memoranda at Lincoln, lf. 259 bk. and lf. 260.]
[leaf 259 bk.]
Testamentum Ricardi Baven de Wooborn.

In the name of god, amen: the xxiiijti daye of ffebruary and in the yere off our lord god Mll vc xxxiiijti, I, Richard baven, make my testament etc.

ffirste, I bequethe my soule to almighty god &c.

Item, I bequethe to the highe aulter of wooborn, iiij d.; Item, to the rode light, ij d.; Item, to saint Nicolas light, ij d.; Item, to saint katheryn light, ij d.

Item, I bequethe to Mawde my wiffe all my goodes and catelles, whome I doo ordre and make my executrice.

Item, I will that henry my sonne haue a grette panne.

Item, I do give vnto hughe and henry my sonnes a bullock.

Item, I will that Mawde my wiffe shall haue my house and landes twoo yeres daye after my dethe.

Item, I will that nicolas my sone shall paye vnto my sone Iohn bauen, xx s.; and [to] hugh my sone, vj s. viij d.; to henry my sone, vj s. viij d.; and [to] Agnes my doughter, vj s. viij d.; and to katheryne my doughter, vj s. viij d., All this money to be paied oute of my landes.

Item, I will that my feoffees shall nott give my sone nycolas noo state in my house and Landes till suche tyme as he hathe paied my debtes and bequestes.

Item, I will that my sone Nicolas shall beare all the chardgies att my buriall and monethes mynde.

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Item, I doo give to Ione my doughter a redde cowe.

Item, I doo give to nycolas my sone my horse and carte.

Item, I will that my sone Nicolas eyre all my landes.

Item, I bequethe to Elezabeth my doughter a litle brasse pott.

Item, I bequethe to Nicolas my sone a table in the hall.

Item, the ij. bullockes to be solde to kepe my house and the reste of the money to my buriall and monethes mynde.

Item, I give to my godsone Richard baven a lambe.

Item, to my brodre henry a shepe.

Item, I doo ordre and make ouersears of this my laste Will Iohn Redynge and christofer coke, [leaf 260] and to have for their paynes, xx d.

wittenes of this my laste will: william manfelde, … Hornblowe, and Roger ffenton.

Brief Latin Record of Probate

Probatum fuit coram Reuerendo patre, domino Iohanne Lincolniensi Episcopo, Duodecimo die mensis Iulij Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo xxxvto, Commissa administracione executrici supranominate iurate, &c.