York Archbishops' Registers

1 . Register 31 f.239 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament, Will
Section Type:	Archbishop Matthew
Summary:	Will of John Lister, clerk, vicar of Thorp Arch (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate.
Language:	Latin
Subjects:	Money, English Books, Reading, Paupers, Doles, Vicars, Last Wills and Testaments, Heifers, Ale, Wills, Servants, Latin Books, Cows, Bread, Probate, Churchwardens, Neighbours, Greek Books
Note:	The testator leaves a legacy so that the poor of Thorp Arch 'may have everie Wedensday for ever in rogacioun weeke ... bread and ... ale to be given amongest them' (presumably a kind of dole, at Rogationtide).
References:	YAS 93, p. 47
Dates:	Probate date: 1624/01/14 (certain) Will date: 1624/12/31 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Lister, John, d ? 1625, Vicar of Thorp Arch (clerk)
Places:	Place of person status: Thorp Arch, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)