[Will], 1539 Oct 23.
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Description
- Title
- [Will], 1539 Oct 23.
- Creator
- Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?
- Contributor
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Draycott, Eleanor
Fitzjames family
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership - Published / Created
- 1539 October 23
- Abstract
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Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service.
The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household.
- Description
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Ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2000.
In English and Latin.
With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged).
With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family; not digitized. - Extent
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1 item : 51 cm. x 65 cm.
1 v. : 26 cm.
3 L. : 29 cm. and smaller - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn a35
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Indentures
Legal documents
Wills - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Draycott, Eleanor
Fitzjames family
Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Ownership - Subject (Topic)
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Catholics--England
Decedents' estates--England
Inheritance and succession--England
Manors--England
Material culture--England
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Prayers for the dead
Saints--Cult
Wills
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Sir John Fitzjames, Will. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9352586
- Object ID (OID)
- 11394873
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a35.htm