Last Will and Testament of William Smithsend of Tewkesbury. Husbandman.
1566
| In the name of God amen, the seventh day of December in the year of our Lord a thousand five hundred three score and six. I, William Smethsend of Walton Cardiffe in the parish of Tewkesbury and county of Gloucester, husbandman, being sick in body but, God be praised, of good and perfect remembrance, do ordain and make my last will and testament in form and maner folowing. First, I give and bequeath my soul unto Almighty God, my maker and redemeer, and my body to be buried in the parish churchyard of Tewkesbury aforesaid. Item. I give and bequeath unto Nicholas Smethsend, my brother, all that my messuage of half burgage and garden thereunto adjoining, with all and singular their appurtenances, set lying and being in Tewkesbury aforesaid, in a street there commonly called the Barton Street and now in the tenure of occupation of one Thomas Torner, and between a messauge or tenement now in the tenure of one Thomas Hill on the east part and the land comonly called the Rede ground on the west part, and -------- itself in length from the said street on the further part, unto the feild called Oldbury on the hinder part, to have and to hold to him and to his heirs for ever, of the chief lords of the fee thereof by service from their due of right accustomed. Item. I give unto him, the said Nicholas, all my tack and implements that my father did give me by his last will and testament after the decease or marriage of my mother in law. Item. I give and bequeath unto Thomas Smethsend, my brother, all that my messuage of half burgage and garden thereunto adjoining set, lying, and being in Tewkesbury aforesaid in the said county of Gloucester, in a street there commonly called the Barton Street, between the land that leadeth in to the field called the Oldbury on the east part and a messuage of the heirs of one Gyles Geast on the west part and now in the occupation of the foresaid Thomas Hill, to have and to hold to him and his heirs for ever, of right of the chief lords of the fee thereof by service from their due and of right accustomed. I do give to the same Thomas, my -------. Item. I give to Brigette my sister, my cow. Item. I give to Elizabeth, my sister, my great ---------. The residue of my goods I do give unto Nicholas, my brother aforesaid and him I do make my whole executor of this my last will and testament. These witnesses Nicholas Crondale clerk. Thomas Wilkynson and Richard Greg. |