EXTRACTS FROM TESTAMENTUM ANTHONII FITZHERBERT.
“In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti Amen.”
“I Anthony ffitzherbert oon of the kings Justices being hole in body and of parfite remembraunce thankes to almighty god make my last will and testament the xii day of October in the xxix^{ th} yere of the Reign of king Henry the eight[10] in fourme folowing ffirst I bequeth my soule to almighty god my saviour criste my Redemer and to our blissed Lady his mother and to Mighel my patron and to all the holy company of hevyn....
And I bequethe XLs to amende the high wayes[11] bitwixt Abbottes Bromley [and] Vttaxather. And to sir Thomas ffitzwilliam Lord Admyrall fyve markes _and the best horsse or gelding that I haue_. And to Humfrey Cotton V markes to ffraunces Cotton fyve markes and _a gelding or a horsse of XLs price_. And to euery of my housholde seruentes a quarter wagis besides their wagis due. And to euery of my seruentes _that be used to Ryde with me[12] oon heyffer_ of two yere olde and vpward or ellse _oon felde Colt_ of that age.
And to sir Henry Sacheuerell and to sir William Basset to euery of them _oon horsse Colt_ of twoo yeres olde and aboue....
And _tenne kyne_ and _a bull_ and _VIII oxen_ and _a wayn_ and the _ploez and other thinges longing to a wayne_, to remayn at Rydwar for heire Lomes. And _XII mares_, and a _stallande_, and VI. fetherbeddes and VI mattresses and Couerynges blankettes shetes and Counterpoyntes thereunto to logge honest gentilmen, and to remain at Rydwar for heire lomes to the heires males of ffitzherbert....
And I will that Kateryn my doughter haue _foure bullockes_ and _four heiffers_ and twoo ffetherbeddes and twoo bolsters and twoo mattresse and bolsters for them and shetes blankettes and other stuffe to make hir twoo good beddis yf I geve hir non by my life....
And where I caused Thomas ffitzherbert to surrendre the Indenture of _the fferme of the parsonage of Castelton in the Peeke_ to the Abbot of Vayll Royal to the intent, to thentent (_sic_) that I and he shulde haue fourty yeres terme therin more then was in the olde Indenture, And to take a newe leesse for terme of threscore and tenne yeres which olde leesse the same Thomas had by the mariage of the doughter and heire of sir Arthur Eyre whiche sir Arthur Eyre willed that his bastard sonne shulde haue fyve markes yerely of the profites of the same fferme as apperith by his wille wherfor I will that the same bastard sonne haue the same fyve markes according to the same will And the Residue of the profites of the same fferme I will and require the same Thomas my sonne that John ffitzherbert his brother may haue the profites therof during his lyfe And after his decesse Richard ffitzherbert his brother And I will that _my fferme at Caldon_ And the _fferme that I haue of the King_ And the _howe Grange_ Remain to my heires males of Norbury And I will that the _lande that I purchased at Whittington besides Lichefelde_ goo foreuer to kepe the obite at North wynfelde for my brother doctour soule according to his will and to be made sure--therfor as moche as may reasonably be devised therfor to stande with the lawe yf I do not assigne other landes therfor hereafter....