“Will of Richard Berne, of Canterbury, 28th April, 1461. My body to be buried in the aisle before the cross, in the south part of St. Paul’s, at Canterbury. To the rebuilding of the bell tower of the monastery of St. Augustine ix _l._ to be paid as soon as the said work shall be begun; to the prisoners of the Castle of Canterbury and of Westgate vi _s._ viii _d._ each; to the Prioress of the Church of St. Sepulchre, towards the works of her Church, xiii _s._ iv _d._; to the repair of the highway leading towards Sandwich, by St. Martin’s Hill and the Fishpoole, x _l._; towards the repair of the highway in the Winecheape, between Bircholle’s Place and St. James’s Hospital, x _l._; to Joan, my wife, my furniture and my best cart, and my five horses fit to draw it, with all their harness; to the building of the new bell tower of Tenterden vi _s._ viii _d._” THE WILL OF THOMAS WINDSOR, ESQ. (1479) “Item. I Will that I have brennying (burning) at my burying and funeral service four tapers and twenty-two torches of wax, every taper to contain the weight of ten pounds and every torch sixteen pounds, which I Will that twenty-four very poor men and well disposed shall hold, as well at the time of my burying as at my _monethe’s minde_ (month’s remembrance). “Item. I Will that after my _monethe’s minde_ done, the said four tapers be delivered to the church-wardens, &c. “And that there be 100 children within the age of 16 years, to be at my _monethe’s minde_ to pray for my soul ... that against my _monethe’s minde_ the candles bren (burn) before the rude in the Parish Church. “Also that at my _monethe’s minde_ my executors provide 20 priests to sing _plucebo dirige_, &c.” THE WILL OF SIR RICHARD HAMERTON, KNT. (1480) This will be found interesting from the characteristic style and quaint orthography in which it is penned; the detail, too, is eminently suggestive of a simplicity in the individual mind of the testator as well as of the social tone of the times, much at variance with the more complicated habits of our own day. Sir Richard, it must be remarked, was “the head of one of the most ancient and illustrious of the Craven families, the representatives of which still flourish and count up to more than twenty generations of Hamerton’s.” “Richard Hamerton, knyghte, in my hole mynde and witt. To be beryed in the kirke of Preston in Craven, in the chapell of Our Ladye and Seignt Anne, in the southe syde of the saide kirke, wherein a chauntery is founded for a prest in perpetuite to syng for Lawrence Hamerton, esquier, and me, the said Richard Hamerton, knyghte, our wyffes, our childre, and all our ancestres. “Item: I gyff in the name of my mortuary my beste hors, with my sadell, bridell, and othre thingis pertenying to the same. “Item: I bequeth to the abbot and convent of the monastery of Sallay a standing maser covered and gilted, to pray for me. “Item: I bequeth to my son William my best whyte cupp of sylver standing.