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Folio 10d - William Taler of Cranefild, husbandman
Burial in parish church yard of SS Peter and Paul of Crannefild. His mortuary "according to the custome of the kinges laweys'". To the high altar for tithes forgotten a bushel of barley, and to the parish church itself 6s. 8d. To the bells 20d..
To Stageden church 20d.. To the parish church of Marston Morten all that Robert Odill of the said parish owes testator. To the mother church of Lincoln 2d..
To daughter Jone Fuller 13s. 4d., and to each of her children a sheep. To daughter Elzabeth Wodill 13s. 4d., and to each of her children a sheep. To daughter Mary Medelton 13s. 4d., and to each of her children a sheep. To daughter Margret Smart 6s. 8d., and to each of her children a sheep. To daughter Agnes 40s., a pot, a pan, a lesser pan, a great candlestick, half testator's pewter, a heifer, a colt and a yearling bullock, 3 sheep, 6 hives, 8s. in money to buy a mattress, a coverlet, testator's best coat, one pair of flaxen and 2 pair of harden sheets with a blanket and a towel.
To son-in-law Lawrens Lambert the shod cart, "pott hangelles" (pot hangers) and trivetts, spit and andirons, the timber and board, with which to give to Agnes a readymade aumbry, table, a form and a bedstead.
To son-in-law William Fuller testator's best doublet, a hosecloth of kersey, and to his wife Jone (testator's dau.) a russet coat, a heifer, a pair of sheets, a mattress with a coverlet that "I lay in at my departeing".
To Robert Mason his best hose.
Daughter Alys Lambert to have testator's best brass pan until her daughter Margret come to lawful age, when to go to her and her heirs, with a coffer, a little posnet, a sheep, and to her brother Richard another sheep.
Daughter Alys Lambert to have a pan standing on the aumbry with another little pan, half testator's pewter with the least brass pot, a chafing dish, 3 candlesticks, a frying pan, a board cloth with a folding table, and the table and the "belche", an aumbry, a chair with all other forms, stools, and a "penne the wiche the brasse standeth apon", two bedsteads, a vat, a kimnel, a molding board, a salting trough with a pair of sheets with the best, with all hangings for the hall and chambers.
His servant Robert Odill to have a brass pan with a coffer.
Executors to have 30 masses sung for the souls of testator and Margret his wife and all Christian souls.
To his executors John Purryar[?] and Lawrens Lambert' 20d. each. Overseer to be John Cesse, to whom 20d.. Residue to be distributed among his children.
Witnesses sir John Grac' curate there, Thomas Spryngnell, William Fuller.