Richard Yernolde

Will of Richard Yernolde 1587

??????????????????????????????????????? yernolde of Odyngley sycke in body but of ???????????????????????????????????

????????????????????????????????? thys my laste wyll & testamente , in maner & forme, ffolow???????????????????????????

??????????????????????????????? vale of myserye, a moste myserable, & wretched synner,????????????????????????????????

????????????????????????????????fully assured, (by faythe) to fynde , onelye in the death,& pertious???????????????????????

????????????????????????????fully assured (by faythe) that god shall restore unto me, at the laste daye ?????????????????????

?????????????????????????? to reygine with hym for ever , in hys kyngdome / I therefore , moste freelye????????????????????

???????????????????????? of almightye god / And my bodye as from the earthe I receyved yt __I willingley?????????????????

????????????????????? & happye resurrection , yelde & gyve yt over to the earthe agayne to be buryed without ??????????????

?????????????????? yt shall seeme good to my Executors / and for those earthlye goodes & possessions , ???????????????????

???????????????I wyll they shalbe disposed as folowethe / ffyrste I gyve & bequeathe, unto wyllyam yernolde my sonne ??????

????????????be payde unto hym by my Executors ,when he shall accomplishe , the age of xxi years Secondlye I gyve & bequeath

??????????????(John?) yearnolde my sonne, seventye poundes to be payde unto hym lykewyse, when he shall accomplishe the age of xxi?????

????????? I gyve & bequeathe unto Alyce yernolde my daughter, twentye pounds, to be payde unto hyr by my Executors ???????

she shall accomplishe the age of xxi years / or at the daye , whan she shalbe bestowed in mariage/ whether shall fyrste ___

hopyinge that she wylbe advised, & ruled,by hyr mother,(& my overseers who I putt in truste) to marry with an honeste man that

feareth the lorde / Alsoe I gyve & bequeathe unto marye yernolde my daughter twenty poundes / to be payde unto hyr

by my executors , at age of xxi yeares / or at the daye of hyr maryage whether shall fyrste happen / hopinge of ??????

as of hyr syster, that she wylbe ruled, by my overseers, as ys aforesayde / And if it shall happen , any one or moe, of my

sayde sonnes or daughters / to departe thys lyfe, before, theyre sayde legacye, & legacyes, shalbe due & payde unto them/ then

my wyll & bequest ys, that hys , hyr or theyr portion soe departing this lyfe , shalbe equallye devyded & payde by my sayde

executors to ______ sayd children or chylde, as shall than lyve / And whereas my predecessor Thomas brooke, dyd by hys laste

wyll, gyve unto John Brooke hys sonne now lyvynge/ the some of fiventye nobles / my wyll & bequeste ys that my executors

shall make uppe the sayde xx nobles tenne poundes / to be payde unto hym by my sayde executors/ whan hy shall accomplishe

the age of xxi yeares / Also I gyve unto wyllyam Brooke xxs to be payde unto hym , whan he shall accomplishe the age of xxiyrs

Alsoe I gyve & bequeathe to everye of my godchildren vid, to be payde shortlye after my decease/ And ffurther my wylle

ys that Alyce my wyfe shall within syxe dayes after my departure out of this lyfe, enter into bondes of fourre hundrethe

poundes/ to my overseers/ faythfullye to performe thys my wyll & testament , accordinge to my true intent & meaninge ____

the sayde Alyce shall refuse, or not performe than I wyll that my overseers, shalbe executors of my wyll & testamente

And further , my wyll is that Alyce my wyfe, duringe her wyddowes estate , shall at hyr owne proper costes & charges, eyther

in learnings some good science or arte, guyde governe , bringe uppe or place, according to hyr abylytye, at the sight & discretion

of my overseers/ all & everye of my sayde chyldrens & chylde / But yf yt shall happen ,the sayd Alyce my wyfe, without the consent

of all my sayde overseers ,or three of them at the leaste ( yf soe manye of them shall than lyve) to marrye with anye man / than I wyll &

my wyll ys / that all my landes, goodes/ tenementes & heredytaments wheresoever mentioned or meante,to the bringinge uppe, & como-

-dytye of mychyldren: doe &shall accrue & come unto my overseers, as due to my executors/ to the coste behooffe, mayntenaince

profytt & Comodytye of my sayde chyldren ,& everye of them: at my truste ys / suche as I truste, wyll see yt shalbe perfourmrd

And upon the Conditions aforesayde , I doe make & constitute, the sayde Alyce my wyfe , my full & sole executrix to perform

thys my laste wyll faythfullye, in everye ____/ And to hyr upon the Condicons aforesayde/ I doe gyve & bequeathe , the reste

of my goodes ???? bequested, my dettes & funeralles beying discharged / lastlye, I doe desyre, my verye lovinge uncle, mr

wyllyam B??????? / my verye lovinge ffrende mr Thomas Trynmell/ my ffaythfull frends, & lovinge ffellowe , mr George

ff_dys ?????????Cosens/ George Wynnes / & John yearnolde of hadsor, that they wyll faythfullye, & carefullye be overseers

& see???????? the wyll & testament perfourmed which I onelye pronounce ffor my laste wyll renouncynge all othere w_stever

And ?????????? upon breach of condicons by my wyfe I doe make my executors / In witnes, whereof, I have here

unto ?????? the daye & yeare fyrste above wrytten: Auguste xxxth Elizabeth xxix th 1587.

In presence of these wytnesses

??????????????? marcke an_ simile George Winnes

John yearnolde

?????????? ____ ____ _____ xxii ___ Thomas yearnolde

?????????? ______ Anno dm 1587:58 __ Elizabeth manninge

?????????? _______ Inventare as Elizabeth wynnes

£154 3s 4d Elynor yearnolde/& others