• Reference
    ABP/R12/68d
  • Title
    Folio 68d - Will of Elzabeth Faldo widow of Maldon.
  • Date free text
    made 8 Mar. 1549 [sic] pr. 12 Oct. 1549
  • Production date
    From: 1549 To: 1549
  • Scope and Content
    "I bequeth my soull to Allmeghtie God" and burial in the churchyard of Maldon. To mother church of Lincoln 2d.; to the high altar in Maldon 8d.. To son Richard a cow. To daughter Katering a cow. To son Richard her great pot, the latten basin with the ewer, the little pewter basin, 2 candlesticks, 2 platters and 2 pewter dishes. To son Richard her best featherbed, a bolster, 2 blankets, a "sperver", 2 pillows, a painted cloth hanging by the bed side with a bedstead and testator's counter. Her five silver spoons and her cushions are to be divided between her son Richard and daughter Katering. To son Richard her table "standing of the benche" in the hall. To daughter Katering her greater pewter basin, her great latten basin, her second pot, 2 candlesticks, 2 platters, 2 pewter dishes, her banker and her hangings in the hall. To goddaughter Elzabeth Abbot a platter, a pewter dish, a porringer, a pewter pot, a salt, a brass pot, the bigger cauldron, her great coffer, a pair of sheets, her turned chair. To Anne Abbott a platter, a pewter dish, a porringer, a saucer, the middle kettle, her ambry and a pair of sheets. To Agnes Abbot her 2 little kettles, the new saucer, a chafing dish, a saucer and a pair of sheets. To Anne Abbott a bedstead and a coffer.To Elzabeth Abbott a bedstead and a coffer. To Agnes Watson a pair of sheets, a smock, a kercher, her worst gown and 12d.. To William Faldow's four children 12d. each . To Mary Morgan and to each of her children 12d. each. To her daughter Katering all unbequeathed apparel. To each of Edmund Abbott's children 3s. 4d.. All the trash of her house not so far bequeathed to be divided between Edmund Abbott's 3 daughters. Executors her son Richard and Edmund Abbot. Witnesses William Tateham curate, Thomas Wysley, Henry Cra..., Thomas Ensham. To each godchild 4d.. 20s. to be given out on her burial day.
  • Level of description
    item