William Savage of Ab Kettleby 1577 Will

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Archives PR/T/1577/102 and probate copy

In dei nominee Amen The xxiiiith daye of Januarye Anno dni 1578 and in the xxth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of god of Ynglande France and Irelande Queene defender of the faithe &c I Wyllm Savage of Abkettlebie in the countie of Leicester beinge sicke in bodie and in perfecte memorie thanked be god make and ordeine this my last will & testament in manner and forme folowinge

First I comend my soule unto almightie god trustinge to be saved by Jesus Christ and my bodie to be buried in the middle alye of the parishe churche of Abkettlebie aforesaid

Itm I geve and bequethe unto Willm Freman of Saxelbie one shepe

Item I give and bequethe unto Thomas Jurdaine of Wartnambie one lambe hogge

Itm I geve and bequethe unto Mr Holms one ewe

Itm I geve and bequethe unto my hostes Tubman one brasse pan and fortie pence in monie

Itm I geve & bequeth and I will that all sheperackes hovels and all wodden stuffe within my house and without remaine and shalbe heire lomes to my house

Itm I geve unto Edward Pickeforke one shepe and a shepe marke

Itm I geve unto Robt Cross my staffe and foure pence monie

Itm I geve unto the towne of Abkettlebie one gavelocke to the use of the comons of the same towne and the constable for the tyme beinge frome yeare to yeare to have the charge thereof

Itm I geve & bequethe unto everie godchild I have iiiid

Itm I geve unto Richard Hurst and his dawghter Marie two shepe

Itm I geve unto Jhon Hurst the sonne of Willm Hurst one shepe

Itm I geve unto Willm Nealle the sonne of John Nealle one featherbed one matteres and a boulster

Itm I geve and bequethe unto Margaret Tubman one lambe hogge

Itm I geve & bequethe unto Robert Harrison my best cotte

Itm I geve and bequethe unto John Nealle my sonne in law all suche houshould stuffe as is at his house

Itm I geve and bequethe unto John Downes of Melton xiid

Itm I geve and bequethe unto Agnes Clyffe a paire of nether stocks and two pickforks … the … stocks

Itm I geve and bequethe unto Elizabeth Tubman one brasse pott

Itm geve and bequethe unto Jone … one little … brasse pott which is at John Nealles

Itm I geve & bequethe unto Agnes Talles of Barrowghe ii shepe

Itm I geve and bequethe unto the children of John Nealle and the children of Nycholas Harbie which they had by Agnes and Margerie my dawghters all my goods movable to be divided unto them by equall portions and I will that Mr Segrave of Scalford shall have the overseeinge of that portion which Harbies children shall have and Harbie to have the use of them & to deliver them when the children shalbe come to lawfull age

Itm I geve and bequethe unto John Nealle & to the heares of his bodie lawfullie begotten by Agnes my dawghter and his wyffe laite deceased all that my house and messuage in Abkettlebye with one yearde lande and other inclosures and pastures and to their heires forever

Item I make & ordeine John Nealle my sonne in lawe whole and sole executore of this my last will and testament to see my debts paid legacies performed and my funerall discharged with my goods

In Wytnes hereof xpofer Homes vicar there, Richard Hurst Willm Stokesthelder Mr Edwarde Pickeforke

Probate Melton Mowbray 20 February 1577/8