Reference
ABP/R12/8d
Title
Folio 8d - Will of Richard Pepyat of Sondon.
Date free text
made 13 Nov. 1547, pr. 12 Dec. 1547
Production date
From: 1547 To: 1547
Scope and Content
Testament Burial in the churchyard of Our Blessed Lady in Sondon, near testator's father. To the mother church of Lincoln 4d.; to the high altar in Sondon for tithes forgotten 12d.; to the mending of the high ways in the parish of Sondon 10s. sterling.
To every child of Thomas Terle and testator's daughter Alys a ewe sheep. To Bartholomew Rudde and to Jone Rudd his sister a ewe sheep each. To Thomas Omant a sheep. To every child of William Stallworth junior a ewe sheep. To Thomas and to John Pepyat, sons of Robert Pepyat, a ewe sheep each. To Alys Pepyat daughter of Thomas Pepyat a ewe sheep. To Agnes Norton daughter of William Norton a ewe sheep.
Residue to wife Jone Pepiat, and she to be executrix.
Will Wife Jone to peaceably enjoy all his lands and holdings in Sondon on condition she pay all debts and legacies. Then to son Robert and his heirs testator's messuage called Paynes with three closes called Julyans, Payddwelles, and a pightle called Estes lying next to Payddwelles which lies on one side with the lane on the other side.
To son Thomas Pepyat and his heirs testator's "hede place that I now dwell in" with the lands belonging to it, and also another messuage called [?] Olmans, and another messuage called Estes, and a messuage called Gosses to be held of the chief lord of the fee.
Wife Jone to have and enjoy the parlour with the chamber which she and testator now occupy with "all other howses of offys and yerdes with 20 acres of lande arable" that is 10 in every field, and his wife Jone and son Thomas are to chose an acre alternately until she has10 acres in every field, and also she to have a close called Hameleches and a pightle now in testator's own occupancy with free "ingayte and owtgayt into the hall and all other places necessary at all tymes dureing hir lyffe naturall".
Witnesses sir John Walter vicar, Robert Preston, Richard Hebbes.
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