Transcribed by me from a will at the National Archives, Kew and then summarised here.
DAVID SHEREWOOD WILL PROVED 1524
Says he is whole of mind but sick in body.
Commends soul to God, the "lady Saint Mary" and all the company of heaven.
Asks burial at the churchyard at Allhallows church Marlow [otherwise called All Saints]. Left money to that church's high altar for tithes and oblations forgotten, for the church's repair and to all the church's lights. Asks for a trentel and masses to be said at Marlow church for the good of his soul and other souls. [Possibly his mother's soul too I couldn't quite read it]
Money for repair of Marlow Bridge and of the highway to Lane End.
Brother William ... shillings and a ...
Daughter Isabel money for her marriage. If she dies before then his nephews William, Reynold and Edward Sherwood get equal shares of that money.
Godson David Sherewood got sheep. Other godchildren, not named, each given money.
Rest of goods to brother Reynold so that with his other brother and the testator's father in law Leonard ?Standwayte? ?Standworthe? can dispose of them in ways that would benefit testator's soul.
Note= David was also known as Davey. The will of Margaret Sherwood of Marlow in 1528 asks for obits to be performed for the benefit of the soul of David and his wife. Margaret was the widow of Reynold Sherwood presumably the brother of David. Margaret and Reynold's wills were proved on the same day suggesting a close death, perhaps from contagious illness. Reynold also says he has a father in law Leonard Standw...suggesting that two brothers Sherwood may have married two sisters Standw...However the term father in law could also mean step father in this era.
A Reynold Sherwood also died in 1528.
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