28 Mar 2018

Will of Sir Thomas Lovell K.G: Part 2


Item: I will and bequeath to each of the four orders of friars as well within the City of London as Norwich, Lynne, Cambridge, Oxford, the Black and Gray friars of Thetford, to each of them 40 shillings.

Item: I will and bequeath to the crossed friars in London 40 shillings.

Item: I give and bequeath to the friars observants of Greenwich and Richmond, both of them to have four pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the nuns of Cheshunt five pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the nuns of Marham in Norfolk ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the nuns of Shuldham ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the nuns of Blakebourne ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the church of Enfield ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the church of Shorditch 40 shillings.

Item: I will and bequeath to the church of East Harling ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the church of All Hallows in Beechamwell five pounds.

Also I will and bequeath to the three other churches there, that is to say Saint John’s, Our Lady Church and Saint Botulph’s in Shyngham, to every of them five pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to either of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge twenty pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to Gonwell Hall in Cambridge ten pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to the marriages of poor maidens fifty pounds; every maid to have five marks.

Item: I will and bequeath to my cousin Chamberlain’s daughter, married to John Dedyke, of my goods and money forty pounds.

Item: I will and bequeath to John Chamberlain forty pounds.

Item: I give and bequeath to Dorothy Hansard, towards her marriage, of my goods and money one hundred pounds.

Item: I give and bequeath to each of William Husey, John Fitzlewes, Anthony Gorney and John Billesby, which have married my brother Sir Robert Lovell’s daughters, I will that each of the same William Husey, John Fitzlewes, Anthony Gorney and John Billesby shall have one hundred pounds towards the finding to school and marriage of their children.


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