1510 Sir Thomas Bradbury

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In the name of God Amen the 20th day of the month of January the year of our Lord God 1509 and the first year of the reign of King Henry VIII, I Thomas Bradbury Mayor of the City of London being in hole mind and good memory thanks be our Lord God make ordain and large this my present testament containing my last will as to the disposition of all my goods chattels and debts lands and rents in manner and form following that is to say: First I bequeath and recommend my soul to almighty God our Lady Saint Mary and all the saints in heaven. ITEM; my body to be buried in the parish church of Saint Stephen in Coleman Street where I am parishioner, that is to say in the Chapel of our Lady within the said church if I happen there to die or else in the parish church where it shall fortune me to decease and pass out of this world before the image of our Lady in the same church.  ITEM; I will that my executors here under named immediately after my decease [xxx] of masses to be sung and said by the [priests] praying for my soul and all [casten] souls; and I will and bequeath to the same [priests] for their labours about the same twenty shillings.  ITEM; I will and bequeath to any  of the [7?] orders of freemen in the City of London to bring my body to earth and to be present at my burying praying for my soul twenty shillings.  ITEM; I bequeath to the said church of Saint Stephen toward the reparation of the same ten pounds or more after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to the vicar of the same church twenty shillings to pray for my soul. ITEM; I will that any of my covenant servants being [with] me at the time of my decease have a black gown after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I will that Sir Robert Blag of the Exchequer have a black gown and a ring to the value of [xxx] in money.  ITEM; I will that my brother in law John JOSSELYN and my sister his wife and either of them have a black gown and either of them a ring to the value of [xxx] or [xxx] in money after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I will that Thomas Stoke, gent have a black gown and a ring of the value of [xxx] or [xxx] in money at the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I will that either of my brethren Henry and Thomas LECHE have a black gown  ITEM; I will that many of my [beneficiaries] and friends as they shall think convenient after their discretion black gowns.  ITEM; I will that my said executors provide all things for and about my funeral burying and months mind as bob their discretion shall serve behoveful needful and convenient.  ITEM; I bequeath to the parish church of Braughing where I was born a suit of vestments of the value of twenty pounds or more after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to the parish church of [Aymelloden] in Essex a single suit of vestments of the value of twenty pounds or more after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to the parish church of Stansted Montfitchet in Essex where my grandmother is buried a single suit of vestments of the value of twenty pounds or more at the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to the poor people of the parish of Braughing aforesaid forty shillings to be distributed by the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; to the poor folk of the parish of [Manelloden] aforesaid twenty shillings to be distributed at the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to the parish of Montfitchet aforesaid twenty shillings to be distributed in like wise after the discretion of my executors.  ITEM; I bequeath to my brother Henry twenty pounds.  Item; I bequeath to my sister Illesley’s daughters for and toward her marriage forty pounds evenly to be divided among them to be delivered to them by my executors at the marriage of every of them and if any of them decease before marriage then the part or portion of her so deceased to be delivered to the other surviving equally to be divided between them etc.  ITEM; I bequeath to my said sister Illesley twelve pounds or more after the discretion of Johanne my wife. ITEM; the residue of all my goods and chattels after my debts paid my funerals done and that my present testament in every thing fulfilled and executed I wholly give and bequeath unto the said Johanne my wife therewith to do and dispose her free will and this my present testament and last will I ordain make and constitute the said Johanne my wife Richard Bisshope of Norwich and Richard Brooke my executors and every of the said Richard Bisshop and Richard Brooke to have twenty pounds.

ITEM; this is the last will of me the said Thomas Bradbury made the day and year aforesaid as to the disposition of all my lands and tenements in the counties of Essex Hertford Kent and in the City of London and elsewhere within the realm of England.  First I will that my said wife have all my manors lands tenements rents and fines which I or any persons to my use been seized of within the said counties and city or elsewhere to have to her for [tenure] of life without [impeachment of most], except the manor of [Ballodes] and my [xxx] in the county of Essex which I will John LECHE have for tenure of his life. ITEM; I will that immediately after her death Humfrey TYRRELL son of William TYRRELL and Elizabeth his wife my wife’s daughter have all that my moiety of that manor or lordship of Beckenham in the County of Kent with the appurtenances to have to him and to heirs of his body and for default of such issue to the sisters of the said Humfrey begotten between the said William and my said wife’s daughter and to the heirs of their bodies and for default of issue of any of their bodies his part so deceasing to remain to the other surviving and to the heirs of her body and for default of such issue the remainder to the said William the father and to his heirs forever.  ITEM; I will that the said Humfrey and Johanne the daughter of my said brother and sister Josselyn his wife if the said Humfrey and Johanne be content and do marry them self together then immediately after the decease of my said wife and John Leche the said Humfrey and Johanne have the manor of [Ballodes] and my [xxx] in the county of Essex to them and to the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such issue to my cousin William Bradbury and his heirs forever and if the said Humfrey and Johanne will not marry together when they both come to their lawful age of consent of marriage but refuse to be married together when they be required by my said executors or their assigns then I will the said my cousin William have the said land to him and to his heirs after the decease of the said Johanne my wife and the said John Leche [for seen] that my wife have the said manor with [xxx] after the death of the said Leche for tenure of her life etc.  ITEM; I will that Denys BODLEY my wife’s daughter immediately after my said wife’s decease have the manors lands and tenements called [Moescot] in the County of Kent with the appurtenances to her and to her heirs of her body and toward her marriage and for default of such issue I will the said manors be sold by my said executors and the money thereof coming to be disposed by my said wife for my soul and the souls of my said wife and all Christian souls as she shall think best.  ITEM; I will that my said wife shall have my house wherein I now dwell and all other houses and edifices adjoining or being appurtenant or parcel of the same for term of her life and the reversion thereof to be sold by my said executors and the money thereof coming to be disposed by my said wife for the wealth of my soul and hers as she shall think best.  ITEM; I will that after the decease of my said wife Thomas JOSSELYN son of my said brother and sister Josselyn have the manor of [Manouden] and all those lands and tenements that I late bought of Henry Woodcock in their County of Essex to have to the said Thomas and to the heirs of his body and for default of such issue the remainder thereof to the said William Bradbury and his heirs.  ITEM; where certain lands and tenements more lately seconded by certain persons against Thomas Newell to the use and intent that if an annuity or annual rent of sixty pounds more truly content and paid out of the manor of [Hammonfield] to me and my said wife Covenanter and granted to be paid for tenure of one [halves] by the Lord of Burgeberry according to indentures of covenants thereof made that then the said revenues of the said lands against the said Thomas Newell made should be to those of the said Thomas Newell and his heirs males of his body and for default of such issue the remainder unto the said Lord of Burgeberry and if he defaults more made contrary to the form of the said indenture that then the said lands should be to me and to my said wife and my heirs. I will that if default of payment be made of the said annual rent contrary to the sum aforesaid that then the said lands to be to my said wife for tenure of her life and the reversion thereof to be sold by my said executors and the money thereof coming to be disposed by my said wife for all souls as she shall think best.  ITEM; I will that annual rent or annuity of twenty pounds in Braughing which the parson of Caste church pays my wife to have etc.  ITEM; all other wills I revoke.

 

Proved 27th February 1509 (1510)