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The Will of William Hayne
The 1551 Will of William Hayne, Yeoman
May 10th 1551.
William Hayne of
Kyngestone juxta
Yevell, yemen
My body to be
buried in the
churchyard of
Yevyll.
To the cathedral
church of Wells
4d.
To the church of
Yevyll 12d
To the poor
people of the
Almsehowse of
Yevyll 3s 4d
To the prisoners
of Ilchester 3s
4d
To Jone my wife
4 oxen and 40
wethers, 2 myll
horses, also all
suche kynde or
grayne as I do
now grow upon
all those
bargaynes that I
do hold with my
mother-in-law
Jone Erlyche,
the fetherbed
and silver
spones which my
father gave to
me, with the
bedstede in my
parlour.
To William my
son the bedstede
and fetherbed
that I do now ly
in and all such
debts as John
Cleves and
William Mylford
of Mutygew
(Montacute) owe
me.
To my daughter
Alice a
flockbedd.
All the rest of
my household
stuf to Jone my
wife and William
and Alice my two
children.
To William my
son my lease of
Rodgrove and of
the house in
Backstrete in
Yevyll which I
bought of the
portryfe and
burgesses of
Yevyll and if he
die before
lawful age, the
said two leases
shall remain to
Alice my
daughter
To Grace Wilton
40s
To my father my
best gelding and
my two burgages
which I bought
of my Lord
Sturton for
ever.
To my brother
Gyles Hayne my
best salt of
silver and gilt.
The residue to
William my son
and Alice my
daughter
(executors)
Overseers: my father William Hayne and my brother Gyles Hayne to whom I commit the custody of my children;s goods until they come to lawful age. If they both die their goods shall remain to my father and to my brother Gyles and his children
Witnesses: Sir John Beall curate, John Tyrdo, William Stone, John Phillippes the elder, Richard Jacobbe, Thomas Clare, Artyr Mawnsyll, "acta per me John Beall curat de Yevell"
September 22nd 1557 Administration committed to William Hayne and Gyles Hayve the overseers, during the minority of William and Alice, children and exceutors of the deceased. January 25th 1574. Testamentum hujsmodi probatur per executores
