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Register 31 f.175 (recto) entry 2
| Entry Type: | Will, Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Matthew |
| Summary: | Will of Ralph Kay, clerk, [vicar] of Topcliffe (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate (commences on fol. 175r and ends on fol. 177v). |
| Language: | Latin, English |
| Subjects: | Debt books, Probate, Vicars, Annuities, Pains, New Testament, Gates, Debts, Churchwardens, Foals, Seals, Servants, Wills, Women, Lands, Bibles, Leases, Last Wills and Testaments, Manorial juries, Psalms, Presentations, Bills, Tutors, Godsons, Daggers, Amercements, Advowsons, Notaries Public, Riding equipment, Household equipment, Furniture, Money, Friends, Deeds, Paupers, Pious preambles, Swords, Horses, Furnishings, Repairs, Hay, Apprentices, Schools, Mortgages, Clothing |
| Note: | In a very long preamble, the testator quotes verses from various books of the New Testament (Luke, Ephesians, Matthew, Romans, Timothy, Corinthians, Acts) and the Psalms, also quoting from John and Acts later in the will and ending the will with the first line of the Nunc Dimittis in Latin (Luke 2:29). He states that he had 52 godchildren. |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 42 |
| Dates: |
Birth date: 1546/03/15 (certain)
Will date: 1605/02/06 (certain) Probate date: 1613/10/02 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Kay, Ralph, d ? 1613, Vicar of Topcliffe (clerk)
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| Places: |
Place of person status: Topcliffe, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)
Birthplace: Dalton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
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Register 30 f.20 (recto) entry 2
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Testamentary business, Wills and Probate |
| Language: | English, Latin |
| Subjects: | Wills, Annuities, Rents, Manors, Servants, Flax, Lands, Doles, Probate, Legacies, Bullocks, Hats, Sheep, Rectors, Money, Parish clerks, Malt, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Calves, Cows, Bellringers, Clothing, Hemp |
| Note: | The initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated. |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 70 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1562/08/13 (certain)
Probate date: 1562/10/08 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Stanley, Thomas, d 1562, Rector of Sutton Bonington St Ann (parson)
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| Places: |
Place of person status: Sutton Bonington, St Anne, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory)
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Register 31 f.108 (recto) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante |
| Summary: | Will, with long pious preamble (fols. 108r-v), of Edwin Sandys, 'Minister of God's Holy Word and Sacraments', archbishop of York (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate (commencing on fol. 108r and ending on fol. 109v). |
| Language: | English, Latin |
| Subjects: | Books, Last Wills and Testaments, Deeds, Wills, Wages, Money, Marriage settlements, English Books, Fruits and Profits, Lands, Manors, Probate, Tuition, Houses, Debts, Household equipment, Chief Justices, Bonds, Meals, Annuities, Pious preambles, Armour, Plate, Deans (Cathedral), Wardship and Marriage, Cows, Lodges, Riding equipment, Horses, Christening gifts, Servants |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 64 |
| Dates: |
Recited document date: 1576/06/04 (certain)
Will date: 1588/08/01 (certain) Probate date: 1588/11/16 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Sandys, Edwin, ? 1519-1588, Archbishop of York (minister, archbishop)
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Register 31 f.78 (verso) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of Miles Aspinall of Great Mearley, near Clitheroe, with schedule of debts (legatees, executors and witnesses named); with grant of probate. |
| Language: | Latin, English |
| Subjects: | Probate, Debts, Schools, Annuities, Furniture, Heirlooms, Iron, Last Wills and Testaments, Rents, Wills, Money, Distraint, Lands, Leases |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 35 |
| Dates: |
Will date:
Probate date: 1578/07/24 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Aspinall, Miles, d ? 1578, of Great Mearley, near Clitheroe (unknown); written as Haspinall
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| Places: |
Place of residence: Great Mearley, Whalley, Lancashire, England (township)
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Register 31 f.77 (recto) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of John Oldfield of Sutton, Cheshire, husbandman, with schedule of debts (legatees, executors and witnesses named); with grant of probate. |
| Language: | Latin, English |
| Subjects: | Probate, Debts, Barley, Annuities, Beer, Houses, Last Wills and Testaments, Landlords, Wills, Tuition, Lands, Farms (lands/property), Leases |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 55 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1578/05/27 (certain)
Probate date: 1578/07/09 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Oldfield, John, d 1578, of Sutton, Cheshire, husbandman (husbandman)
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| Places: |
Place of residence: Sutton, Prestbury, Cheshire, England (township)
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Register 31 f.88 (recto) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of Thomas Huntingdon, clerk, rector of Ackworth (legatees, executor and witnesses named); with grant of probate. |
| Language: | Latin, English |
| Subjects: | Probate, Household equipment, Dilapidations, Annuities, Coins, Furniture, Books, Plate, Clothing, Last Wills and Testaments, Wills, Money |
| Note: | Legacies include 'a range of iron'. |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 40 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1578/12/26 (certain)
Probate date: 1580/04/28 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Huntingdon, Thomas, d ? 1579, Rector of Ackworth (clerk, parson)
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| Places: |
Place of person status: Ackworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
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Register 31 f.88 (verso) entry 2
| Entry Type: | Will, Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of John FitzRandall, clerk, rector of Winestead (legatees, executors and witnesses named); with grant of probate. |
| Language: | English, Latin |
| Subjects: | Money, Last Wills and Testaments, Churchwardens, Doors, Dilapidations, Glass, Bonds, Coins, Foals, Bills, Wills, Horses, Vicars, Rents, Clothing, Cows, Wheat, Windows, Fixtures and fittings, Probate, Ivory, Paupers, Annuities, Lands, Debts, Books, Merchants, Women |
| Note: | Testator leaves money to be distributed annually to the poor of Winestead on 'the Thursday next before Easter (Maundy Thursday) at evening prayer (presumably Evensong)'. |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 27 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1580/03/05 (certain)
Probate date: 1580/07/27 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: FitzRandall, John, d 1580, Rector of Winestead (clerk, parson)
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| Places: |
Place mentioned: Patrington Haven, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (hamlet)
Place of person status: Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory) |
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Register 31 f.89 (verso) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Will, Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of John Tyas, clerk, rector of Treeton (legatees, executors and witnesses named); with grant of probate (continued on fol. 90r and ending on fol. 90v). |
| Language: | English, Latin |
| Subjects: | Money, Last Wills and Testaments, Furnishings, Wood, Churchwardens, Pigs, Pious preambles, Daggers, Poultry, Servants, Wills, Deeds, Horses, Vicars, Scholars, Clothing, Oxen, Cows, Household equipment, Probate, Rectors, Wool, Paupers, Annuities, Rye, Godchildren, Alms, Parish clerks, Lands, Coal, Rents, Furniture, Books, Leases, Hats, Locks and keys, Repairs, Wheat, Priests, Roads |
| Note: | Will is headed with the words 'Disposui Testamentum electis meis psal[m] 88 Et Testamentum meum fideli ipsi' from the Bible, Psalm 88, verses 4 and 29, and also contains other quotations in Latin from St Augustine and various books of the Bible (discussed in A. G. Dickens, 'Aspects of Intellectual Transition among the English Parish Clergy of the Reformation Period: A Regional Example' in Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 43 (1952), 51-69 (64)). |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 77 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1580/05/30 (certain)
Probate date: 1580/11/17 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Tyas, John, d 1580, Rector of Treeton (clerk, parson)
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| Places: |
Place of person status: Treeton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
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Register 31 f.133 (recto) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Grant of Probate, Will, Last Will and Testament |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Hutton |
| Summary: | Will of Henry Rowntree, vicar of Kirkby in Cleveland (legatees, executrix and witnesses named), with grant of probate. |
| Language: | Latin, English |
| Subjects: | Probate, Wills, Paupers, Last Wills and Testaments, Money, Annuities |
| Note: | Money to be given to the poor annually at the feast of the Nativity (Christmas, 25 December). |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 63 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1582/04/20 (certain)
Probate date: 1595/10/02 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Vicar
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| Places: |
Place of person status: Kirkby in Cleveland, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)
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Register 31 f.100 (verso) entry 1
| Entry Type: | Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will |
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| Section Type: | Archbishop Sandys |
| Summary: | Will of Roger Jackson, clerk, rector of East Bridgford (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate. |
| Language: | English, Latin |
| Subjects: | Loans, Last Wills and Testaments, Schoolmasters, Plate, Wills, Tenants, Women, Money, Probate, Houses, University of Oxford, Household equipment, Godchildren, Cottages, Books, University of Cambridge, Clothing, Paupers, Annuities |
| References: | YAS 93, p. 41 |
| Dates: |
Will date: 1586/01/02 (certain)
Probate date: 1595/02/12 (certain) |
| People and Groups: |
Testator: Jackson, Roger, d ? 1586, Rector of East Bridgford (clerk)
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| Places: |
Place of person status: East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory)
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