Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 3.djvu/10

 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io' s. m. JAN. 7,

received a posset and a jelly for his imme- diate delectation, and a tart and a cheesecake to take home with him. At least that is what Mr. Jones remembers to have been usual when he was a chorister. The grace- cup with mulled wine went round to all the guests, and the two grace-cups that were used are still in the possession of the Chapter. They are a very fine pair, silver gilt, with handles and covers, standing about 15 inches high, and holding about three pints apiece. They have engraven on them the arms of the bishopric ensigned by mitres. The date- letter, confirmed by the leopard's head crowned, shows that they were hall-marked in 1764.

There was a man cook in the service of the Chapter who went from house to house. The last but one was named Sanglier, a Frenchman, doubtless, and he lived in the small rectory house of St. Mary's in the South Bailey.

There are two interesting drawings, dating from about 1780, in the Kaye Collection at the British Museum, iii. 1, 2, one of which represents a residence dinner at Durham with the prebendary at the head of the table, in gown, cassock, bands, and wig, and about half a dozen gentlemen in the pictur- esque dress of the period ; these are the only figures shown in the drawing. The other represents a number of old women in uniform cloaks sitting at a long table, from one end of which the prebendary, habited as above, and with a benevolent smile, as in the case of Dr. Jenkyns handing the shilling, is distributing to them long clay pipes. They appear to have just had their dinner, and the grace-cup is on the table, having just gone round. The expressions on their countenances are exactly those of the old women in Caldecott's illustration of Mrs. Mary Blaize, when she " strove the neigh- bourhood to please with manners wondrous winning," and cups of tea. J. T. F.

Durham.

SHOTLEY WILLS, 1463-1538.

THE following five wills have been tran- scribed from the registered copies preserved in the Probate Court at Ipswich. No. I. and No. II. are written in abbreviated Latin in an unusually crabbed hand, by no means easy to decipher. The Latin is here extended. A few words have baffled the skill of the modern transcriber.

The parish of Shotley, in Suffolk, occupies the apex of a triangle of land, bounded on its two sides by the rivers Orwell and Stour, and having for its base the railway line con-

necting Manningtree with Ipswich. The- parish lies in two manors Over-Hall-with- Netherhall and Shotley Hall or Kirk ton.

No. I. (Book II., fo. 120".)

In clei nomine Amen septimo Kalendas Augus-tii Anno Domini millesimo cccclxjij. Ego Johannes Pertryche de Schotele alias Kyrketon compos mentis & bene memoria: condo testamentum nieuin in hunc modum In primis lego Animam meam deo omnipotenti beate niarie ac omnibus sanctis corpus que meum ad sepeliendum in cimiterio beate marie de Schotle alias Kyrketon. Item lego summo Altari eiusdem ecclesie iij' iiij' 1 pro decimis oblationibus <fc aliis omissis transactum. Item lego ad reparacionem ecclesie beate marie de Schotle alias Kyrketon infernio siveexternio ubicumque[?one word] necesse- facere x 1. Item convento fratrum Augustini de Orford x" pro xxx u [a trentall Sancti Gregorii. Item convento fratrum minorum Gippewici x 1 simili modo pro xxx u . Item lego Johanne Halle uxori Roberti Halle filie mee xiij' iiij j sub hac condicione- viz. nt ipsa Johanna & nee ipse Robertus perturbant nel [vel] ad [? iniuriam] aliquo modo proturbanfc sive contradicant Thomam perteryche filium meum quacumqueexcausasiveproaliqua viz. sivebonamo- bilia sive immobilia Efc si contingatquod Absit quod isti duo faciant ut laborant contra meam ultimam voluntatem tune volo quod nichil [nihil] habeat sive habeant de bouis meis nisi ad [? one word] predicti Thomse filii mei sicut sibi placuit Residuum vero omnium bonorum meorum debitis Abstractis do <fc lego Thomce pertryche ac Agneti consorti sue- heredibus & Assignatis suis ut ipsi ordinent & disponant pro anima mea & uxore meo [sic] sicut melius viderint expedire In cuius rei testimonium sigillum meum presentibus Apposui ac eciam his testibus domino Andreo capellano Roberto ov'ton ballivo de Herwiche [Harwich] Johanne Hastyng' minore de Schotle & Aliis multis Anno domini probatum fuit, &c. Apud. Gippewicum xxiiij' die- mensis Januarii Anno supradicto Et comyssa supradict' etc.

No. II. (Book III. ,fo. 156 b .)

In Dei nomine Amen undecimo die mensis Novembris Anno domini nullesimo cccc mo Ixxxxiij". Ego Thomas Pertryche de Schoteley senior compos mentis et sane memorie condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego Animam meam deo omnipotenti beate marie ac omnibus sanctis Corpus que meum ad sepeliendum in Cimiterio ecclesie parochialis de Schotley predicti. Item, lego summo Altari eiusdem ecclesie vi" viij' 1. Item lego fabricando une fenestre in parte Australi dicte ecclesie iij 1 iiij d. Item lego domini [sin] fratrum- minorum de gippevvici pro uno trigintali pro anima mea ad celebrandum x". Item lego domini [.s:c] fratrum Augustini de Orford iij" iiij d. Item lego Johanne filie mee uxori Johaniiis worry de villa predicta duas pecias terre iacentes infra Sewair croft cum domo k gardina sibi & heredibus suis post obitum Agnetis uxoris nice. Item lego Agneti uxori mee totum illud tenementum in quo habito cum omnibus suis pertinentiig ubique jacent diu quedam vixerit. Et volo quod post decessum uxoris mee illud tenementum predictum cum pertinentiis auis dividatur inter duos filios meos equaliter viz. Thomam & Johannem Ita eque inter eos dividatur. Et volo quod Johannes filius meus habeat mansiona