At a Council Meeting of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held in Durham Castle, on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1911, Mr. J. G. HODGSON in the chair, It was resolved, That a second volume of North Country Wills from the Registers at Somerset House be edited for the Society by Mr. J. W. CLAY, F.S.A. WILLIAM BROWN, Secretary. PREFACE. THE first volume of North Country Wills in the Registry at Somerset House, London, was printed by the Surtees Society as Volume CXVI, for the year 1908. It comprised the Northern wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from 1383 to 1558, and as far as possible contained all at London between those dates. The present volume continues the series as far zas 1604. After that date the North Country wills are much fewer and less important till we come to the time of the Commonwealth, when between 1650 and 1660 every will seems to have been taken to London instead of to York, an index of which was prepared by Dr. Collins and printed in DEC 9 29 ALLEN Volume I, Yorkshire Record Series. In Volume IX of the same series an abstract of some of them also appeared. It may be stated that the Index Library Society began a few years since to calendar all the Somerset House wills. The first three volumes came to the year 1604, the date of this book. Two more have just been finished, bringing the series down to 1629, and it is hoped that the work will be continued. 454793 JOHN Wм. CLAY. NORTH COUNTRY WILLS. I. THE WILL OF HENRY WETHERELD, OF NORTH ALLERTON. GENT. (Morrison, 14.) 1 Feb., Anno Reginæ Mariæ primo (1554-5). Henry Wetherelde of Northallarton, gentleman. To be buried in the parishe churche of Allarton nere unto my late wiffe. To the heighe alter v s. To John Foster a yonge fillie or xx s. To my sonne Thomas Wethereld one howse in Allarton, wherein John Paycoke nowe dwelleth. To Ralfe Hethewaite vj s. viij d. I will yt my welbeloved wiffe Jane Wethereld, Robert Wethereld and James Wethereld my sonnes shalbe my executours to whome I bequethe all my goodes. I make Sr George Conyers, knyght, and Christopher Wethereld my supervisors and overseers, to whome I bequethe the order of all my children. And I give to the said St George one great boke in my studie, which was the late vicar Askewes. I will that Roger Barker and Margerie Barker have all their porcions, accordinge to their mothers will, if they do marie with my children, and if not to have it of their late father's goodes. [Proved 15 May, 1565.] II. THE WILL OF GEORGE WARDE. 12 Oct., 1557 (4 and 5 Philipp and Mary). George Warde, maryner and bacheler, borne in the towne of Newton in the countie of Richmonde, nowe being shipped in the good shippe called the Teager, and in the said shippe I am appoynted to goo into the lande of Geney, being a longe and a dangerouse journey, having no certentie of my lif nor sure comyng home, and do consider my bounden dutie towardes my poore mother Sibell Warde and my foure bretherne all dwelling in greate Creacall in the parishe of Beadall, the whiche of righte and good conscience ought to have all that I have or shall have, if God take me oute of this worlde in the A tyme of this my journey, do make this my will myndynge never to alter this my will nor make any other untill I come save to London agayne. I give my cheist withall suche goodes as is properly myne in the shippe and all my waiges that remayneth unreceaved of me with all suche shares as maye come by chaunce of warre after my death unto my mother Sybell Warde, whome I make my executrix, to dispose my goodes unto her self, and to my bretherne every one of theym part and part like by even portions. I make myn uncle Christofer Warde of London myne oversear, and he to have xx s. for his labour and myne attorney to withstande the lawe against all suche as kepe awaye any part within my will, and to paye hymself all suche chardges spent in the lawe. [Proved 6 Feb., 1558-9.] III. THE WILL OF HUGH THORNHILL, OF SAUNDBY. (Chaynay, 4.) 24 Oct., 1557. Hughe Thornehyll of Saundbye in the countie of Nott., esquyer. To be buryed in the parish church of Saundbye. To the parson for tythes twentye shyllinges to hym yearlye so longe as my lease doth endure in the tythes. To Syr Robarte Applaye over the rente of xl s. alredye graunted so longe as he ys Vycare of Bekingham the yearlie rente of twenty shillinges towardes the augmentacyon of his lyvinge out of my landes in Bekingham purchased of the Kinge Edward the Syxte. To my cosyn Willyam Thornhyll all my landes in Heyton, Cassakka, Chaworthe, Saundbye, Gringley, Bole, and Bekingham, and too partes of my landes in Bekingham, to houlde the sayde landes to the sayde William Thonehill and heyres male, and for defaulte of yssue to Rychard Thornhill, cytizen and grocer of London, and brother to Willyam, and for defaulte to Thomas Thornehill, brother to Willyam and Rychard Thornhill, and to the heyres males of Thomas Thornhill, and for defaulte to Frauncys Thornhyll, and for defaulte the remaynder to me and my heyres. To my cosen Willyam Thornhyll my leasse of Saundbye and of the parsonadge there so that he wyll allways beare his good wyll to Sir John Herrye, knighte, and his heyres. To my neyce Dorathey Thornhyll my lease of the personadge of Misterton and the Chapyter sealle whiche I hadd by my wyfe as executrix to Wyllyam Meringe deceased, and whiche is nowe myne owne by the deathe of my wyfe, for that I lett the same to my brother but onlye |