My soul to "god allmyghtie to our ladye Saynt Marye & all the blyssed company of hevyn." To be buried in the churchyard of All Saints, Laxfeld, "at the Chauncells ende ther next my father." To the high altar there, for tithes negligently forgotten and not paid, 20d. To the reparation of Laxfeld church 20d. To the three houses of friars in Dunwich and Orford [Suffolk], to each 3s. 4d., to have a trental of masses sung for my soul and my friends' souls as shortly as may be after my decease. To priests, clerks, and poor people at my burial day, £6. 13s. 4d. To my son Robert Fyske my tenement in Laxfeld wherein now I dwell, with all my lands, meadows, feedings, rents, and services in Laxfeld, now "in the occupyeng and menuryng" of the same Robert, according to such bargain as I have made with him by indenture of 1 January, 25 Henry VIII [1 January 1533/4], he to pay £40, viz., (a) £6. 13s. 4d. to my executors, at the day of my burial; (b) to my son William Fyske 5 marks a year for three years, said William to discharge my executors of a bond of 20 marks wherein I am bound that he shall leave his wife Elizabeth, at his death, lands or moveables worth 20 marks, (c) to my son Symond Fyske, in the fourth year after my decease, £3. 6s. 8d.; (d) to my daughters Johan Jerelon and Olyve Warne £3. 6s. 8d., in the fifth year; (e) to my daughter Margerye £3. 6s. 8d., in the sixth year; (f ) to my son Jafferye, £3. 6s. 8d., in the seventh year, and £3. 6s. 8d., in the eighth year; (g) to Johan, my younger daughter, £3. 6s. 8d., in the ninth year; (h) to Agnes, my younger daughter, £3. 6s. 8d., in the tenth year. If my younger children, viz., Jaffery, Margery, Johan the Younger, and Agnes the Younger die before being paid, their share is to be divided among the same my four younger children. My son Robert is to be bound to pay the above. My son Robert is to have the utensils, implements, and household stuff which I have not given or sold at the day of my decease. Residuary legatees and executors: John Goodynche, vicar of Laxfeld, Henry Smyth of Laxfeld, and John Noloth of Walpole [? Suffolk], to dispose to the pleasure of God and the health of my soul and my friends' souls. Supervisor: John Fyske of Holton [Suffolk]. Witnesses: James Lane, "balye" of Laxfeld, John Fyske of Holton the Younger, Nicholas Stannard of Laxfeld.
Proved July 15, 1538 by the executors.
(Archdeaconry
of Suffolk [Ipswich Probate Registry], book 13, fo. 16)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.