Reference
O/176
Title
Will of Richard Osborne of London, citizen and grocer
Date free text
8 Mar 1543/4
Production date
From: 1543 To: 1544
Scope and Content
To wife Elizabeth:
- one third of his estate
To children:
- one third of his estate
For legacies:
- one third of his estate
To poor neighbours:
- “dwelling in the warde of Chepe, for hym and his wyffe”:
- 12d
To “the wardeyns of the grocers for a dynner for my company of the lyntry”:
- £7
To Anne Pyke, daughter of sister and now a servant in his house:
£20
To John Kyng of Clifford:
- 20s
To same:
- a further 20s “to by hym a cote of what colour he will”
To Thomas Osborne of Hockley, son of testator’s uncle:
- £7 “and one of my furred gownes neither the best nor the worst one of my silke Dubletts and a sylke Jackett”
To each of Thomas Osborne’s children:
- 10s
To James Osborne:
- 20s “to bye hym a cote of what colour he will”
To “William Trayforde’s wyffe who was my brother’s daughter”:
- £3 6s 8d and “three yards of clothe for her gowne”
To each of her children:
- 20s
To John Cooke the elder:
- 20s “for his gowne or cote”
To John Causton of “Lonneys” the elder and his wyffe:
- “for his cote and her gowne, 7 yards of clothe of what colour they will”
To Mystress Staverton:
- “a blacke gowne of 8d the yarde and a ringe of golde price twenty shillinges or twenty shillinges for it”
To mother Ann Hill:
- “a blacke gowne and fourty shillinges”
To “Cousyn Cooke of Aldergate”:
- 20s
To friends William, Mary and Thomas Bowyer, grocers:
- 40s each
To Master Crome, parson of “Aldermary”:
- “five yards of clothe to make hym a blacke gowne or fourty shillinges in money”
To Mr Downe and his wife, Thomas Norton and wife, “Rauffe” and William Badnam:
- a black gown each price 8d a yard
To Edward Fowler, Margaret Styrrell, William Raymonde and his wife and to all servants:
- a black gown each
To John Yonge “my Douchman”:
- 10s and a gown
To William Thornely, skynner and wife Agnes (late testator’s servant):
- the “dett they owe me”
To John Osborne:
- gold knife with jewells
To Peter Osborne and William Lane:
- a gold knife each
To eldest son John Osborne:
lands in London after decease of testator’s wife Elizabeth on condition that he surrenders his copyhold land in Purley, Norton and Fambridge (county Essex) and assures a freehold tenement called “seygers and Smythes” in Purley and Norton to Peter Osborne
Executrix: wife Elizabeth
Witnesses: John Osborne; Edward Bowland; William Lane
Level of description
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