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Will of Richard Rampley 8 August 1558 (proved 18 April 1559)

Catalogue Reference: PROB 11/41
Dept: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Series: Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers
Piece: Name of Register: Noodes Quire Numbers: 40 - 77

///In the name of God Amen/// The viijth daye of August in the yer of our
lorde god a thousande five hundred fiftee and eight I Richard Rampley of Walsham in the
Countee of Suffolk yoman being hole of mynde and of good memorye doo ordayn and make
my last will and testament in manner and fourme following that is to saye I bequeath
my soule to allmighty god, And my body to be buried in christen buriall where it shall pleas
god Also I geve and bequeath to Alice my wif my tenementes with all the landes medowes
pastures thereto belonging within the towne of Walsham except that Richard my sonne is infef-
fed in To holde to her to her and her assignees during the terme of lif and one yere after to
be at her will and assignment Also I giue and bequeath to Richard my sonne all my
landes and pastures both free and coppie that he is not allredye infeoffed in from the high
bagges towardes the holivad greene to hold to him and his heyres foreuer, on this condicion that
he shall not entre that he is already enfeoffed till one yere after my deceace, and also that
he shall not entre this my legacie and bequeast that he is not feoffed untill one yere after
my wifes Deceace and he the said Richard shall paye to Elisabeth Carleton my daughter xxli
of good and lawfull money of England and this to be paid one hole yere after he entre his
lande after his mothers deceace vli and so the next hole yere after other vli and so euery yere
vli till the somme of xxli be fully contented and paide. Also I giue and bequeath vnto
Reginald my sonne my tenement that I now dwell in and my house at towne holly as they
lye within themselfs and my Cloas next market way otherwise called horstsawe and iiij
acres of land lying in the melfeeld and my pittell at Stapleland to hym and his hares foreuer
on the condicion that he shall not entre in the saide lande till one hole yere after my wifes
Deceace. And also that the said Reginalde shall paye or cause to be paide to Christofer
Carlton and Richard Carleton Alice Carleton and Mary Carleton the children of Iohn
Carleton and Alice Rampley and Agnes Rampley the children of Richard Rampley
to either of them xiijs iiijd and this to be paid within one hole yere after he entre his land
And if they all come to thage of xiiij yeres or els to tarrye till they come to the saide age
Also I geve and bequeath to Edmund Day the sonne of Sir Reynold Bewfew clerke iiijli
of good and lawfull money of England to be paide by the said Edmonde by myne executors
when he commeth to the full age of xxti yeres. And if he the said Edmond departe this mortall
lif before commeth to the saide age Thenne I will the foresaid iiijli be evenly diuidid
betwixt his twoo sustern Ioane Dey and Alice Day if they be than alive or either of them
yf they be all goon before I will it shalbe distributed to the poore by my executours wherever
they shall soe moost neede. The Residewe of all my goodes not spoken of what kynde or na-
ture soeuer they be of with all vtensiles and stuff of housholde I geve freelie and holie to Alice
my wif whome I ordayne and make myne executrix and Richard Rampley and Reginald
Rampley myne executors. Written with myne awne hand In Witnes By me Richard Rampley
The Surrendre is geven of all the landes holden of the Quenes <of maister Cantons
holis> maiestie within the towne of Walsham to Thomas Vincent thelder and of <Walsham>
maister Bacons hold. In witness therof Fraunces Rokewood of Walsham Robert
Hawes with others.