Will Summary For David Sherewood Great Marlow 1524

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 [later 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 he can dispose of them in ways that would benefit testator's soul.

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