Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
“Will of William de Beauchamp, dated at Wauberge, upon the morrow after
the Epiphany, anno 1268, 53 Henry III. My body to be buried in the
Church of the Friars-Minors at Worcester. I Will that a horse,
completely harnessed with all military caparisons, precede my corpse; to
a priest to sing mass daily in my Chapel without the city of Worcester,
near unto that house of Friars which I gave for the health of my soul,
and for the souls of Isabel my wife, Isabel de Mortimer, and all the
faithful deceased, all my rent of the fee of Richard Bruli, in Wiche and
Winchester, with supply of what should be too short out of my own proper
goods; to Walter, my son, signed with the cross, for a pilgrimage to the
Holy Land on my behalf and of Isabel, his mother, two hundred marks; to
Joane, my daughter, a canopy, some time belonging to St. Wolstan, and a
book of Lancelot, which I have lent them; to Isabel, my daughter, a
silver cup; to Sibill, my daughter, all the money due to me from my son
William, towards her marriage, and XL marks more, with the land which I
bought in Britlamton, to enjoy it until she be married, and no longer;
to Sarah, my daughter, one hundred marks for her marriage; to William,
my eldest son, the cup and horns of St. Hugh; to my daughter the
Countess, his wife, a ring with a ruby in it; to Sir Roger de Mortimer
and Sir Bartholomew de Suley a ring each; to the Friars-Minors of
Worcester forty shillings; to the Friars-Minors of Gloucester one mark;
to the Friars-Carmelites there one mark; to the Hospital of St. Wolstan
at Worcester one mark; to the Hospital of St. Oswald there ten
shillings; to the Canons of Doddeford one mark; to the Church and Nuns
of Cokehill x marks; to Isabel, my wife, ten marks; to the Church and
Nuns of Westwood one mark; to the Church and Nuns without Worcester one
mark; to every Anchorite in Worcester and the parts adjacent four
shillings; to the Church of Salewarp, a house and garden near the
parsonage, to find a lamp to burn continually therein to the honor of
God, the Blessed Virgin, St. Katherine, and Saint Margaret; and I
appoint my eldest son William Earl of Warwick, Sir Roger Mortimer, Sir
Bartholomew de Sudley, and the Abbots of Evesham and of Great Malverne,
my executors.”
WILL OF WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK
(1296)
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