Notes & queries for Somerset and Dorset Volume 8

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 ...information about Dorset records. Walthamstow. Geo. S. Fry. In 1878 was printed a Report of the County Records' Committee, as a small foolscap 4to pamphlet, of pp. 26. Dorset Editor. 157. Four Wells Wills Of The 14TH Century (VIII. lvii. 11, lviii. 41, lx. 117).--IV. The Will of John Gy of Wells (Wells Cathedral MSS. No. 403, A.D. 1377.) In Dei nomine Amen. Ego Johannes Gy condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meam Deo et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in sacra sepultura ubicunque decedo, et si de mare revenio corpus meum ad sepeliendum in cimiterio Sancti Cutberti Wellie. Item lego die obitus mei xxs ad distribuendum inter Christi pauperes. Item lego Johanni Palmer unam furruram de oter et gladium meum. Item lego tenementum quod Walterus Bole de me tenet ad terminum vite sue situatum Biestwalles ad vendendum et distribuendum inter Christi pauperes et presbiteros pro anima mea per manus executorum meorum. Item lego Cristine filie Thome de Wodeforde tenementum totum quod Johanna Pithers de me tenet ad terminum vite sue et revercionem ejusdem tenementi lego ad vendendum et distribuendum pro anima mea. Item lego omnia alia tenementa mea in villa de Wellys ad vendendum et distribuendum pro anima mea et antecessorum meorum. Item lego omnia alia tenementa mea, prata, pasturas, terras et reversiones in quas Willelmus Banastre et Johannes Knyth sunt feofati predictis Johanni et Willelmo executoribus meis habendum et tenendum predictis Willelmo et Johanni et eorum heredibus in perpetuum et si contingat quod predicti Willelmus et Joh'es deficiant (quod absit) ad implendam ultimam voluntatem meam volo quod predicte terre prata tenementa ac reversiones cedant proquinquioribus heredibus meis.. Item lego omnia bona mea mobilia non legata excepto quod Wi...

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First published July 27, 2015