vpon this condicion, pat he be good frend to my executours, and pat he lete hem note off ministracion off myn other goode on the Manere of Pychardisoke ne elles where. Also I bequeth to myn Aunte, 4 prioresse of Lynebroke, xl s'. Also I bequeth to myn Awnte Corbet, xl s'. Also I bequeth to sir Ion Skydmore,1 my newewe, a girdeł of peerles. Also I bequeth to Iane myn nece, to her mariage, or when sche is of age, xx ti. Also I bequeth to Peryne her suster, my god 8 doutghter in pe same forme, x ti; and if it so be þat þe forsaid Iane and Peryne dye be-for þat thay come to age, or ellys maried, then I wil þat pe mony of either of hem so deede, turn to pe vse of her susters ouerlyuyng in þe same fourme. and if all pe susters dye ar they 12 come to age or be maryed, pat then pe mony tourn to be vse of her bretheren ouerlyuyng. And if all pe bretheryn die with-In age of xvj zeere, then pe mony be disposed in Almasdeddes be my executours. Also I be-queeth to Iankyn Myles my seruaunt, xxti/, 16 and myn eche daies gowne of marterount. Also I bequeth to sir

Iohan Coyle, I pare bedes of coral. Also I bequeth to Elizabeth Ioye x ti and a booke of Englyssh, cleped "pore caytife," and I gown furred with gret menyvere. Also I bequeth to Ionet 20 Okbourn x mare and my sauter helid with blake, and a gown furred with Cristy gray. Also I bequeth to Iohn Huchecoke, v marc'. Also I bequeth to Iankyñ Tailour, v marc. 2 Also I bequetħ to Dauid Morys, xl s'. Also I bequeth to Ioħn Hergest, xl s'. Also 24 I bequeth to Luysote xl s'. Also I bequeth to the wyffe of Iankyn)

Miles a gown furred with Besshe. Also I bequeth to Dauid Cradoke xiij s' iiij d. Also I bequeth to Iames and to his wyfe x s'. Also I bequeth to pe chirch of 3asore, fore my lord and his auncetres, to 28 serue in pe chirch, a peire vestimentis of blake, wherof þe same Chirch hath pe cope. Also I bequeth to what thenge þat is most necessary in pe same Chirch, v. marc. Also I bequeth to Ionet Knolles a stondyng cuppe of siluer gilte couered. Also I bequeth to Thomas 32 Knolles pe 3ongger' a cuppe of siluer gilt couered. Also I bequeth to Iohn Thomas a cuppe of siluer playñ. with pe scripture of seynt Ion.

1 Either Sir John Scudamore of Kentchurch, Herefordshire (who married the daughter of Owen Glendowr), living temp. H. IV., or his son and namesake.~~~ H. Round. 2 leaf 430.

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Also I bequeth to two prestes, honest men and good liues, and ellys not, to do diuine seruise for my lord and me for on 3er anoon After my decees, resonable lyuelode after pe discrecioun of myñ executours. Also I bequeth to sir Reynold, my prest, iiij. quayres of Doctours on Mathewe. The Residue for soth of a my goodes in this my testament not bequethen, I 3eue and bequethe to myn executours, be her discrecion to be disposyde, that oon halfe to my pore tenauntz, and þat other halfe to god men faithful and nedy pat ben in disese. 8 And to pe execucion of this my testament and my last wiH to be fulfilled, I ordeyn my trusty frendes, Iankyn) Miles, Thomas Knolles aforsaid, Elizabeth Ioy, Ionet Okborne, and Iohn Tailour, myne executours be thees presentes, that they will do her besynesse 12 to fulfy goddes wiH and myne, as they woH aunsuer afor gode. also I bequeth to ich of myn) executours takyng charge of ministracion of this my testament, v. marc', and reward for her costages whan they labour specially for my maters. Into wyt'nessyng of which thyng, to 16 this my present testament I haue put to my seeH: 3eueñ at London), day, moneth, and 3er, aforsayd.

Probatum fuit presens testamentum coram Magistro Iohanne Estcourt & c, xviij° die Mensis Nouembris, Anno domini Millesimo 20 xxijdo &c, et commissa fuit administracio Iohanni Miles, Elizabethe Ioy, Iohanne Okbourne et Iohanne Tailour, executoribus &c Reseruata potestate & c, et habent ad exhibendum Inuentarium: ac secundo die Mensis Decembris Anno domini supradicto, acquietati 24 fuerunt executores supradicti, & soluerunt pro fine iiijor nobilia.

The pore Caytife (p. 50, 1. 18) is a collection of religious tracts against abuses in the Romish Church, known by this common title, and formerly attributed to Wycliffe, tho wrongly, by Bp. Bale and others. On the authorship of it, see Shirley's Introduction to Fasciculi Zizaniorum, p. xiii, note 3. MSS. of it are Harleian 2335, -6, -9, &c., &c.; and part of it is in Douce 322, leaf 100.

SIR ROGER SALWAYN, KNIGHT, OF YORK, 1420.

[To be buried in the Grey Friars at York, with a flat marble stone over him. Gifts to the 4 Orders of Friars in York. All houshold goods and £500 to Wife. £400 for land for Son. Marriage portions for Daughters. Debts to be paid out of rents. Poor Tenants to be let off. A pilgrim to be sent to Jerusalem, at not more than £100. Gifts of Money and Horses to Relativs and Friends. Old Servants to be rewarded. Gifts of Armour. Money to Nun who nursd Testator in sickness. 40s. Annuity to a man. Furd garments to be sold for Testator's soul.]

(March, P. P. C., lf. 437 back.)

Testamentum Rogeri Saluayn, militis. [In margin.]

n the name off gode, I, sir Roger Salwayn, Knygth, 1þe xxvj· day

off October in the yer off our lord M1 CCCC xx makys my testament in this maner ffirst, I wyte my soule to gode almythty, to 4 our lady seynt Mary, and to all pe seinttes of hewiñ, and my bones to ben beriede in pe grey frerres atte 3orke. Also I wiH that ther where my bones shall be beryde, be a flate stoñ off marbit, ewyn with the grounde. Also I wiH pat pe forsaid freres haue al my gownes off 8 cloth off gold and off sylke, with-outyn pe ffurres. Also I wiH pat þo same frers haue xl ti for to synge and pray for me.

Also I will pat
Also I will pat

ilkon off pe other thre ordirs in 3orke haue x marc. my wyffe haue al my housholde holy, with vel ti that is in hir 12 handes. Also I wiH pat ther be ordeine for byynge off londe for John Salwayñ my soñ, CCCC ti; Also for pe mariage off Alison my doughtir, CCCC mare; Also for pe mariage off Isabel my doughtir, CCC marc. Also I will þat my fader dettis, and my moders, be paide 16 off my goode3 that is in the Coillors 2 or in pe fermors handes off my

rent; and if any tenaunt be so pouer that he may nought, for pouertee, pay his ferme that is owing, I wiH pat ther be nought reseyued off hym, but þat he may resonably pay, and pat pe 1 p is for 'y' all thru. 2 Collectors. Fr. cueillir, to cull, collect.

remenaunt be for-3effyñ. Also I wiH pat som goode man be ordeine to goo for me to Iherusalem in pilgremage, and as far as is cost is lese than C ti in commyng and goyng, þat hit be 3ewyn for my soule to poure men wher most1 allmose is. Also I will pat 4 Richard Chace haue v marc off monee, and a bay hors þat was Gerard my son; William Lister xxti. Thomas Fairchild xl marc', Acris Mersk xx ti; liti Petir, liard 2 Manley and x marc', and pat Acris Mersk haue pe grey geldyng; Gerard and Iohn my brethir, 8 liard 2 botiller, and a sorede 3 horse pat was bought off Henudeñ, and þat Edward my brethir chese. Also I wu pat Gerard my brodir haue xl. ti, and Thomas my brothir a place in Duffelde, termyn off his liue, pat I purchesede off Ioħn Fulthorpe; and after the desese 12 off hym, to turn agayn to pe regħt haiers off me. Also I will þat sir Robert Shottesbroke,5 knynght, haue pe sorde hors; and liti Hans þe hoby, and xl 's' aboveñ his hir. Also I wiH that Frost Mores and liti Robyñ, ilkoñ off them, haue xl s'. Pomfretth, skynner, of 3orke, be paied of v. or vj. be, for furres pat my lady my moder knowes off. William TropmeH, taillour, of London), and Hunt, brouderere, be paied of their billes for makyng off a liuerey of myñ. Henry Lound haue a blake goun furred v1 funes, and a habirgoun of Mylen, opyn be-for, put Richard Stel haues in hys kepyng. Also I wiH pat 3iff any seruaunt of myn haue labord for me in my countree sen my fader died, þat they be resonably rewardid aftir the 24 seruice þat they haue doñ. Also 3if any man can aske any dete off other be euidence, or pat they be credibil persones, I wiH pat they be paied. Also I wiH that Elyn Saluayñ, my brothir Gerard doughtir, haue xl. mare" for hir mariage. Also I wiH pat Gerard my 28 brothir haue a newe fure of martirs,9 and I habirgoun 10 of millon).

me,

1 ? most nede of.

2 grey.

3 sorrel, red roan?

Also I wiH pat 16 ti, whedir þat hit Also I will pat

Also I wiH pat 20

4 ? Duffield on the Derwent, N. of Derby.-Walker's Gazeteer, 1801.

5? MS. Shoccesbroke.

6 a small horse: 'the hobbie of Ireland' is among Harrison's 'outlandish horses.' Part II, p. 5 of my edn. New Shakspere Soc.

7 ? MS. Pomsrecch.

8 ? with funes, trimd with 'foynes,' or martin skins. See Fouinne in Cotgrave. 9 See p. 36, above.

1 The Habergeon was a smaller and lighter coat of mail or plate than the

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Also I wiH pat Iohan my brothir haue I habirgoun of Gesserañ.1 Also I will pat pe Nonne pat kepid me in my seknes haue ij nobles, and þat ther be 3if in-to the hous pat she wonnes in, 'xx s' for to syng and pray for me. Also I wil þat Thomas Faarchild haue as mych monee as he may purches hym xl s'. be 3er. Also I wiH pat all pe ffurrurs þat I haue, be sould and doon for my saule. Also I wiH pat Chace haue a habirion of myne. executors of my testament, I 8 will and ordeine Piers de la Hay, Gerard Saluayn, Robert Rodeston), sir Nichol Dixson, Clerk, Robert Cawode, Robert Day, Richard Chace, and Thomas Fairchild, to whom I 3iff and wit pe residue of all pe good and cateH þat I haue, þat they ordeine and dispose hit in 12 sich wys as may be most meritory for my soule, as they will answere be-for gode on dredfull day of doom. And the surveiors of my testament, I wil and ordeine William Kylwolmerssh, Clerke, and my wyfe; wyttnessyng William Philipe Chiualer, Richard Wodevił, 16 William Lister, and other. Also I will pat William Lister haue as mych of monee as the sorde hors is worth, pat Shottesbroke haues.

Probatum fuit presens testamentum coram Magistro Iohanne Estcourt, commissario &c, septimo die mensis Marcij, Anno domini 20 Millesimo CCCCmo xxijdo &ca; & Commissa fuit administracio omnium bonorum dicti defuncti, Ricardo Chace & Thome Faarchyld, executoribus in dicto testamento nominatis; et habent ad exhibendum Inuentarium citra festum pentecosti proximum iam futurum.

Hauberk, and was sometimes worn under that: see Chaucer's Sir Thopas. It had sleeves in Wace's time, as he tells us that Bp. Odo's haubergeon at the Battle of Hastings was loose in the body, and tight in the sleeves. 1876. Plaché, Cycl. of Costume, i. 236.

1 A light flexible piece of armour 'composed of small overlapping pieces of steel, fastened by one edge upon canvas, which was covered with cloth, silk, or velvet, the gilt heads of the rivets that secured the plates forming an ornament on the outside. It was used for cuisses, brassarts, and other portions of harness; but very generally in the 14th and 15th centuries [and no doubt in the Will abuv] for jackets.' 1876. Planché, Cycl. of Costume, i. 313. (See the woodcuts of two Jazerant Jackets on p. 314.)

2 leaf 438.

[This ends the English Wills in Register March.']