Testamenta Leodiensia: Wills of Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield, Otley, and District. 1539 to 1553

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Page vii - ... infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory) might by will and testament in writing devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments, held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage: which now, through the alteration of tenures by the statute of Charles the Second, amounts to the whole of their landed property, except their copyhold tenements.
Page 160 - THE RECORD SERIES of the Society was commenced in 1885 for the purpose of publishing Yorkshire records. It has printed Feet of Fines, Index of Wills, Inquisitions, Subsidy Rolls, Chartularies, Monastic Notes, Court Rolls, &c.
Page 165 - Marie and to all the sanctes in heaven and my bodie to be buried w'in the chauncell at Ufforde. It...
Page vii - VIII. c. 5, which enacted that all persons being seised in fee-simple (except feme-coverts, infants, idiots, and persons of non-sane memory) might by will and testament in writing devise to any other person, except to bodies corporate, two-thirds of their lands, tenements, and hereditaments held in chivalry, and the whole of those held in socage...
Page 32 - God, 1540, and in the xxxijth yere of the reigne of our sou9aignc lorde, Kinge Henrie theght, supreme hede of the churche of Englande. I Elisab' Fawcett, late wif of Lennarde Fawcet, of Ledes, pfite of mynde. makethe and ordinethe this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge. First I bequeathe and giue my saull unto Almightie Gode, and my bodie to be buried wthin the churche yerde of Ledes.
Page 160 - The Society was formed in 1899 for the purpose of printing the older Registers of the County. The following have been either issued or are in the press : — York (St.
Page 34 - Yorke, of holl mynde and goode remembrance, doth make my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge. First I bequeath...
Page 7 - Casson, latelie decessid, dothe make this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge. First I bequeathe my...
Page 228 - Denton, being off wholle mynd and perfect remebranc, praise be unto Almighti God, makethe and ordainethe this my present testament, conteining herein my last will, in maner and forme following, that is, first I commend my soull unto Almighti God, my Maker and Redemer, and my bodie to be buried in the churcheyard of Denton.
Page 177 - Marie, and to all the holie company of heaven, and my bodie to be buried within the pshe church of Alhallos, in Wakefelde. Item I bequeath to Thomas Bateman my sone one house in Kirkegate, and nowe in the holdinge of Myles Jennynge.

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