WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
It seems like the easiest thing would be to simply post up a webpage with a
legible copy.
Will Johnson
In a message dated 2/2/2006 3:15:35 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jeffchip9@hotmail.com writes:
To bring this to some kind of closure, I have been unsuccessful in
getting this IPM translated even for a fee. Notre Dame informed me
they couldn't handle it, nor could the classics department at Missouri
State.
Dear Jeff,
Your original post that Will replied to above does not seem to have
made it onto Google. I hope we're not having gateway problems again.
I had made a post that included the full transcription of the 1530 will
of Sir Walter Griffith while the gateway was down last month, and it
also does not seem to have made it onto Google.
I'm sorry you're having such difficulty with the IPM translation. I am
no better than you in deciphering the 15th century handwriting these
documents are composed in, let alone trying to figure out the Latin.
Still, I'll be happy to take a look at it, if you'd like, and see if I
can make anything out. The genealogical information most helpful in
IPMs is the name and age of the heir, which is usually in the final
paragraph of the return from each county. Perhaps I can at least help
with that. You can email it to me directly at
'royaldescent@hotmail.com'.
Below is the will of Sir Walter Griffith (d. 1531), in case you never
saw the original post.
Cheers, ---------Brad
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Finally, the Testamenta Eboracensia series has the will of Sir Walter
Griffith (d. 1531). Interestingly enough, a footnote to it states that
the will of his father Sir Walter Griffith (d. 1481) has also been
printed in the series (Test. Ebor. iii. 269). Sadly, I did not have
time to follow up on that one, but given the recent extensive
discussion on the newsgroup concerning the Griffiths of Burton Agnes, I
will do so next time I'm at the library. Meanwhile, here is the
younger Walter's will:
"June 24, 1530. Walter Griffith, late of Annas Burton, in the diocess
of Yorke, Knyght, beyng of hoole mynde and salve memorie. My bodie to
be beried in the new chapell, annexed to the churche of Sancte Martyne
at Annas Burton, where my ladie, my moder, lieth. I will yt all suche
landes .. within the countie of Yorke and Lincoln as I have put in
feoffament .. do stand .. and my broder, Esachie Clifton, one of my
said feoffes, .. shall take .. the rentes .. of Annas Burton
personadge, with Litle Kelke and Swaithorpe, to performe this my last
will. ... To Jane Griffith, my wif, an hundreth markes, & to my yonger
son, John Griffithe, cc li., over and besides his annuitie of xxiij li.
vj s. viij d. To my doughtour Agnes, late wif of John Egerton Esquyer,
fortie markes. To my doughtour Margarite Griffith, for hir mariadge,
fyve hunddreth marces, if she be orderid after hir moder; and, in
reward to my sone and heire, Griffith & Elisabeth his wif, fiftye
poundes, with my tent hool, ye harnes, and as moche of my houshold
goodes as he haith nede of, after the discretion of my wif, in
recompense of fynes and garsomes that I toke of his tenementes at Annas
Burton. .. To my broder, Ezache Clifton, tenne markes. To Sir William
Webber, vicar of Annas Burton, c s. Also to every one of my godsones,
Walter Cawod, Gervasie Cawod, and Walter Nicholson, xl s. Also to my
godsone, Walter Wright, yerely xx s. to he come to the age of xxiiij.
To Thomas Goldsmyth, balif of Alrewas, xl s. I will that every one of
my houshold servauntes .. have in reward over their wadges for a half
yere after my decesse after the valour of ther hoole yere wadges. Also
I will that a prest be wadgyd to pray for the helth of my saull, my
fader's and moders .. in the churche and chapell of Annas Burton, where
my said moder is beried, for the space of fortie yeres after my
decesse, & to have yerely for his wadges eight marces, supposing that
by suche space as thies yeres shal be ended, myne heires, of there
charitable mynd, will devise for the helth of theire saulles and ours
in likewise; and so frome heire to heire for ever, so to be continued,
whiche I pray God grante to them grace for to do, accordding to the
good example of my moder that this did begyn. Also I will that my
chapleyn, Sir Robert Alsope, have yerely xl s., to pray, as by my
executors he shal be appoyntid and assignyd, unto suche tyme as he shal
be promotid to a chauntre or benefice, duryng his lif. Also I will
that if Sir Roberte Barlowe will lerne and studie in aither of the
Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, that my said feoffes and
executours do gif unto hym yerely his honest exhibicion, unto suche
tyme as he be graduate or promotid to some beneficie, as prebende,
parsonadge. .. I will that my broder, Ezachie Clifton, .. make a ..
graunte .. of one annuitie of xx marces, goyng out of my maner of
Oreby, to John Griffith, my yonger son. I will that my said feoffes
and executors over the convenient chardges of my beriall and yere's
mynd, do cause yerely that for xxj yeres foloing too obites to be done
in the churche of Annas Burton, for me, my fader, moder, and suche as
we be boundon to pray fore; the one obite to be alwayes as it shall
fortone my aniversarie to be; and th'oder opon the morowe next after Al
Saules daye; and when Al Saulles daye is differrid to Mondaye, then it
to be opon the morowe next after that, and that naither obite shall
excede the costes of thwentie shelynges; and towardes the same obittes
to have and perceyve the ishues and profittes of my landes purchased in
Scardeburgh, and after the said xxj yeres be past, then myn heires to
have the same landes, and to be charged therefore to bestowe the yerely
valour of the same for the said too obites yerely, to continue for
ever, and to be done in the churche of Annas Burton, in maner and forme
as is aforsaid, for themselffes, me, my wif, my fader, my moder, etc.
Also I will that my feoffes and executors do purchase landes and
tenements, to the yerely valour of xxiiij li., or els as moche landes
as foure hundreth and fiftye marces will purchasse, and the same surely
to intaile to my heires generall for ever, in satisfaccion for suche
landes as I did cell in Wales to Sir Ryse as Thomas knyght. . I will
that fyve marces be disposid and waryd of too latyne candilstickes, to
be set byfore the hie altar in the chauncell at Annas Burton, in
t'honor and wirshipe of God and Sancte Martyne. I will that my feoffes
& executors, within xx dayes after my decesse, do delyver the castell
of Scardeburghe to the kynge's grace, or his heires, for so I am
boundon in a thousand markes for to doo. Also I will that al suche
offerynges as er in a litle redde purce, whiche er inclosid in paupors,
be offeryd to our Ladie of Walsingham, and to al other suche Sanctes as
the intitilyng of every one of the said paupours will appere. Also I
will that their be bestowid opon Whichenour briggs, and the chapell
their, and in the waye at Lopyn chapell, iiij li. .. The residue .. to
Jane Griffith, my wif, Antone Babyngton Esquyer, my broder, Ezache
Clifton, Sir William Webster, vicar at Annas Burton, Roberte Tovie,
balif theire, and Thomas Wright of Whichenour, whome I make my
executours: if non of them this refuse, to have c.s. .. every one of
them as for their reward. [Proven 17 Dec. 1531.]"
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