Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Money, Weights and Measures, and Places
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Making Cloth
- 2 Marketing Cloth
- 3 Identifying Clothiers
- 4 Clothiers and Government
- 5 Clothiers in Society
- 6 Famous Clothiers
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Gazetteer of Surviving Buildings
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Will of Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Money, Weights and Measures, and Places
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Making Cloth
- 2 Marketing Cloth
- 3 Identifying Clothiers
- 4 Clothiers and Government
- 5 Clothiers in Society
- 6 Famous Clothiers
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Gazetteer of Surviving Buildings
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
1. In the name of God Amen. The 4th day of September in the year of our Lord God 1518. I Thomas Paycoke of Coxhall with a whole and good memory set my testament and last will in this wise:
2. First I recommend my soul to God and to Our Lady Saint Mary and to all saints, and my body to be buried in the church of Coxhall afore the altar of Saint Catherine.
3. Item I bequeath to the high altar of Coxhall church in recompense of tithes and all other things forgotten total £4.
4. Item I bequeath to a tabernacle of the Trinity at the High Altar, and another of Saint Margaret in Saint Catherine's aisle there as the great lady stands for carving and gilding of them, total 100 marks sterling.
5. Item to the reparations of the church and bells and for my lying in the church, total 100 nobles.
6. Item I will and give to a chantry for to pray for me and my wife, my father and mother John and Emma, and for my father-in-law Thomas Horrold of Clare, and for all my friends’ souls that I am bound for the purchase and mortessyng to the king, and also to the same chantry, six poor men to keep the same Mass three days in the week, that is for to say Monday, Wednesday and Friday, to pray for the souls afore rehearsed, and therefore to have 18d among them every week to fulfil this, and also every year 100 wood apiece of them and my priest to sing in Coxhall church afore Saint Catherine altar, total 500 marks.
7. Item I will that mine executors bestow upon my burying day, seven days and month day after this manner, at my burial to have a trental of priests and to be at Dirige, Lawdis and Commendations as many of them as may be purveyed that day to serve the trental, and if any lack to make it up the seventh day, And at the month day another trental to be purveyed whole of mine executors and to keep Dirige, Lawdis and Commendations as is afore rehearsed with three high Masses be note, one of the Holy Ghost, another of Our Lady, and another of Requiem, both burial, seventh day and month day.
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- The Medieval Clothier , pp. 292 - 296Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018