Reference
ABP/R6/82
Title
Folio 82 - Dame Anne West of Bedford, widow of Thomas Weste deceased, made 29 Mar. 1541, proved in the peculiar jurisdiction of Bedford Major 12 June 1541 when probate was granted to John West junior, John West senior having refused executorship.
Date free text
1541
Production date
From: 1541 To: 1541
Scope and Content
Burial in the chapel of Our Blessed Lady St. Mary in the parish church of St. Polle in Bedford. To the high altar for tithes forgot 20d.; to the mother church of Lincoln 4d.; to the vicar of Polles to pray for testator and her friends 6s. 8d..
To her sister Elzabeth Crote widow 20s. in money, all which sums are to be paid by testator's younger son John West tanner.
Reciting that she has lent to her eldest son John Weste, mercer, £74, she gives him £14 of that sum in recompense for a close at Clopham which testator (by the last will of her late husband) should have bought for 20 marks for the same John, but which she was unable to purchase, as he well knows. Another £15 of the £74 he is to use for her burial and for her soul, i.e. to every priest saying or singing mass that day in Poulles church 6d., to every clerk singing at dirige or mass 2d., and 1d. to every other person present at her burial. In consideration of the above and in lieu of 30 bullocks bequeathed him in his late father's will (which she failed to provide) she also remits the remaining £45 of the £74.
Whereas the said testator and John Weste, tanner, her younger son, are bound to pay £40 to John and Thomas Weste, the sons of John Weste the elder, mercer, by Joan his late wife, John West the younger, tanner, is to pay £20 to each boy on their wedding day, and if either or both should die before marriage his or their share is to be divided between the children of John West, tanner, her younger son, towards their marriages, but should John West, tanner, the younger son, be in any way harrassed, then her legacies to the 2 boys are void, and the £40 is to remain with John West, her younger son.
Reciting that the highway between Eye Crofte and Bedford is not yet fully made up in length as her late husband requested in his last will and testament, testator desires John West, tanner, to make up the road as in his father's will, and in consideration of this, and of 30 bullocks left him in his father's will but not delivered, she remits all sums that John West the younger owes her, and in addition leaves him all moveable goods and chattels, jewels, household stuff, household implements, and all debts owing to her. Testator leaves him also 2 silver salts with silver covers, 2 pieces or cups of silver, a silver pot with a silver cover, a mazer with a silver gilt band, a silver and gilt nut with a silver and gilt cover, and 20 silver spoons.
Executors are to be her sons John Weste the elder, mercer, and John West the younger, tanner.
Supervisor John Colbecke gent., and he to have 10s..
Witnesses to the sealing Thomas Smyth gent., sir John Neweman, Henry Crote, Thomas Locke.
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