To be buried in the churchyard there, before the image of St. Saviour. To the high altar there, for tithes forgotten, 20s. To the repairs of the said church, with the money that I owe for John Asoham, £4. To each gild there of which I be a brother 12d. [Legacies to various lights there.] To my wife Elizabeth my house I dwell in, for her life, some copyholds and other lands, tallow in the workhouse, candle to be weighed, etc., and my wife and John Fiske are to keep accounts of it. To the four orders of friars in Norwich, to sing for me, 10s. to each order. Patman's house is to be sold and the money used for the purposes of this will. To my wife all wares in the shop, to bring up the children; and, if not worth £20., then it is to be made up to that sum out of my goods. All household stuff, pewter, beds, etc., to my wife, except that I give to Wm. Fyske a good [illegible], a coverlet. etc., and certain pewter. My house and land at Kerbroke [Carbrooke, Norfolk] are to be sold (my wife may buy at less than others). To my son Thomas 100s. To Wm. Poynter and Elizh. Poynter his wife, my daughter, £4. To John Fyske, my son, and to his wife, £20, in help to pay debts he oweth to Wm. Rogers, merchant, of Norwich, and to others, and also to him a close at the town's end. To Ambrose Fyske my son, after his mother's death, the house I dwell in, and he is to pay to his sisters Cycely Fyske, Wyburgh Fyske, Anne Fyske, and Alice Fyske 5 marks each at marriage. If Ambrose die, his wife is to have the house. To John Tompson, "berebruer" [beer brewer] my best gowne. The feoffees of my lands in Norfolk or Suffolk are to make estate to my executors when required. Residue to my executors, Elizh. Fyske, my wife, John Fyske, my son, and John Pavys of Norwich, to pay debts and to my soul's profit, and to each executor 40s. Witnesses: Roger Balkewell & Robert Dobbes, priests.
Proved 8 November 1529 by Pavys, the
wife renouncing, with power reserved to the son John, executor.
(Consistory Court of Norwich, Register Heywarde, fo. 139)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.