| Description | Calendar of D184/4/1: Will of Hugh Revell, being of whole mind and sick in body. He bequeaths his soul to Almighty God and our lady his blessed Mother and all the company of heaven. He wishes his body to be buried in the parish church of St Leonard of Shyrlaunde [Shirland] beside his wife, and for his principal [mortuary] his best quick beast according to the custom of the country. He bequeaths to the parson of the said church for tithes negligently forgotten 10 shillings; to the wardens of the said church 10 shillings to buy a banner cloth of St George with a shaft to bear it on, 40 shillings to buy 2 vestments and 10 shillings to buy a mass-book; to his executors 20 marks to buy 2 marble stones to cover the bodies of his parents and his wife. He wishes the feoffees of all his lands and tenements to find 2 priests to say and sing divine service in the said church for the souls of his father and mother, his wife, his brother Robert, Roger Freke, his brother and sister, his kinsfolk and benefactors, and all Christians; the priests to be found with the profits of his lands and tenements in ["Egestowe Goselands lying in Shyrlaund Twathtwayt"] with all houses, lands and tenements in the same, and 2 houses lying in the Hill within the parish of North Wynfield, one in the holding of William Ludnam and the other in the holding of Robert Alkoc, with a rood of land lying at the east end of Shyrland [Shirland] church within the Park to build a chantry house upon; his feoffees are to hold the premises to the use of the said priests forever, or else to find [maintain] them and their successors; if ten or twelve of his feoffees should die, the remainder are to cause an estate to be made of the premises to two or three well-disposed persons, who are to refeoff the survivors and ten or twelve other discreet and well-disposed persons, four of the feoffees making an estate as aforesaid to find the priests. When his son Tristram is 22 he is, within 20 days of the decease of any of the priests, to have the gift of the chantry to any such priest as best shall seem to him, and should he not give it within 20 days, the testator's son Roland to have the gift (and similarly in default to the Abbot of Derley [Darley], the Mayor of Nottingham, and the right heirs of the testator). When Tristram is 24 he is to take the issues, revenues and profits of all the testator's lands and tenements in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, except the lands appointed to the chantry and lands and tenements in Horseley [Horsley], Crych [Crich], and the testator's feoffees are to make Tristram an estate of all these premises, except those excepted, with remainder to Roland and the testator's heirs. When Roland is 24 he is to take the issues, rents and profits of lands and tenements in Nottingham and in Horseley [Horsley], except lands and tenements in Mannsfeld Wodhouse [Mansfield Woodhouse] late in the holding of Roger Walker, Adam Morehouse and Peter Dawson, with a tenement in Crych in the holding of Richard Lynney, which lands so excepted are to be held by the feoffees to the use of Cuthbert Langton and Jone his wife in tail with remainder to the testator's heirs, the feoffees making an estate of the premises, except those excepted, with remainder to Tristram and the testator's heirs. Should he die before surrendering his copyhold lands, his son Tristram is to surrender them to the testator's feoffees to the use of Roland, Cuthbert Langton and Jone his wife in tail. He bequeaths to Tristram and Roland, when they are 24, 100 marks to set up their household; to his daughter Katherine and Edmond Sandforth her husband when he is 24, should he and she agree, 100 marks, and if they disagree so that the marriage is not perfect, she is to have the 100 marks immediately after the disagreement. If either Tristram, Roland or Katherine die before the time comes, two or one of them so surviving are to have the 300 marks, or as shall be unpaid. He bequeaths to his brother's daughters such lands as their sisters are married to; if it be 20 marks, up to 20 marks of land, if such friends as the testator shall appoint find the marriage to be dowable and if it be between those two to moderate it; To Alyce [Alice] Revell his servant on her marriage 4 cows and 4 oxen with a silver-harnessed girdle which was Nicholas Smarth's wife's; to Jone Hegel for her good service 26s. 8d.; to Thomas Bolyngton's daughters, eldest and second, 2 heifers each on their marriage; to his executors £20 to buy 100 calves to give to his god-children and other poor maidens of his kin and neighbours; to his cousin Agnes daughter of his brother John Revell £10, and another £10 of her brother John Revell in token of her good; To the Trinity Chapel [Brackenfield] his chalice now in their possession; to Mary Magdalene Chapel of Rydding his chalice now in the keeping of Richard Page, and 10 cows to maintain the stock of the Chapel; £10 to be bestowed to mending Oston [?Ogston] Lane. To his 4 executors for their reward "for to be just and true to my children", and to those who shall gather such rents and monies as are due to maintain them in all this is right, 10 marks and reasonable expenses; to his overseers a wage of 20s each from his children, executors and gatherers of his rents; to John Frechwell for the oversight of the testator's son Tristram until he is 24, 10 marks a year to find him at the school and in array as he ought to be found, and if he marries before then John is to have 20 marks yearly for keeping Tristram's wife; to John Sandford for the rule and guiding of the testator's son Roland and his wife until he is 24, 20 marks a year to find them as they ought to be found. To Raff Greenall for the rule and guiding of Jone the testator's bastard daughter begotten by Jone Tansley until she is 16, 5 marks for her finding and keeping, and she is then to be married at the sight of Raff and the testator's executors for which marriage she is to have 100 marks if she is married and guided by Raff and the executors, and if she will not, the 100 marks is to be divided between the testator's other children which sum is to be levied one half upon his crops and the other half upon his household goods, boles and smithies. To Rawndall his bastard son half his crops and half his household goods with 8 oxen and 8 cows, 2 iron-bound wagons and iron teams and yoke, and 80 sheep. To Thomas Hardwyk his servant for his good diligence and true service 5 marks a year for life, to be paid at the Feasts of the Annunciation and Michaelmas, one half to be paid from the testator's lands and tenements in Derbyshire remaining to his son Tristram, the other half from his lands and tenements in Nottingham remaining to his son Roland, and for the lack of payment Thomas is to distrain on Carnethwayte or Draknow [?Drakelow, Nottinghamshire] or upon lands or rents belonging to Roland; to Nicholas Gytt the house he dwells in and 20s a year for his life, to be paid at the Feast of the Annunciation and Michaelmas, and for lack of payment he is to distrain on the testator's lands and rents in Hyggham [Higham]. To Lord George the Earl of Schrowesbury [Shrewsbury] 100 marks which he has in hand; 50 marks to support the testator's children, executors, supervisors and gatherers of [missing]; the residue to be disposed of in alms and charitable deeds by his executors as they think best for the health and salvation of his soul. Executors John Revell his brother's son, Sir John Dawson parson of Shirland, Rawndall Sandforth and Robert Worth of Crych. Supervisors John Abbot of Bewchyff, John Sandforth, John Frechville, Roger Heyre and Raff Greenall. Witnesses Otwell Low, John Altost and Peter Nes scribe. 15 May. Probate at Lichfield 9 July. Administration granted to the executors |