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In the name of the Father and of the sonne and of the hollie goste Amen the twentithe and eighte daye of September In the yere of our lord god a thousande fyve hundreth three score and three I James Boddie servannte unto Walter Pikes of the Cittie of Bristow draper beinge in perfect minde and goode Remembrace &c I doo make this my last will and testament in manner and forme followinge First and principallie I bequethe my soull unto allmightie god &c And for the talent that god hathe lent me of temporall gooddes my will is that it be bestowed in manner & forme as hereafter followeth Item I give unto George Boddie my Brother fiftie poundes Item I give unto Avis Southwoodd the wife of John Southwood in Wells my Sister twentie poundes and to everie of her children twentie shillinges a peece beinge fower Children Item I give unto John Boddie my Brother In Wells twentie shillinges Item I give to the Allmes house in Wells Syxe poundes And to sainte Cutberth Churche in Wells thertene shillinges and foure pence Item I give unto the poore people twentie poundes the one half of the saide twentie poundes to be given in Wells and the other half to be devided to the almes howses and the poore here in Bristowe Item I give unto Mawde Pikes the daughter of Walter Pikes my master Twentie poundes to be delivered her at the daye of her marriage yf she die before she be married the saide twentie poundes to be whollie to the use of her father Walter Pikes Item more I give unto the saide Mawde Pikes my Cawdron mye Chaffer my grete Crock and one of my fring pannes whiche she liste to Choose and my littell posatt Item I give to John Butcher of Wells three poundes Item I give unto my Cosen Northorne in Wells Fortie shillinges and to his Children thertene shillinges and fower pence Item more I give unto my Sister Avis my three pannes and my other fryinge panne and twoo littell crocks a pare of Andirons and three of my best Candelstickes The Reste of my gooddes I give and beqth to my master Walter Pikes whom I make the Overseer of this my last will and testament the??r? wittnesses William Hellacre John Bisse and Richard Huissh Vicesimo quinto Die mensis Maii Anno dni Millimo Quingentesimo sexagesimo Sexto [this paragraph continues in Latin to grant probate on 25 May 1566 to] Waltero Pikes
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