My soul "to our lady saynt Mary & all the saynts in heven." To be buried in the Cherchyerd of all the Hallowen [All Saints] of Laxfeld." To Laxfeld church 10s. To the Gild of Our Lady there 3s. 4d. To "Agnes Arteyse servaunt" 3s. 4d. To a priest to sing for me in Laxfeld church for one-half a year. For a trental 10s. To the sepulchre light 40d. To the light before the rood 40d. To the repair of the chapel 40d. To every godchild 4d. To my daughters Margery and Margaret 13s. 4d. each. To Johan Davy 20d. To "Christian Margerye Elizabeth & Anne my sonys wyffes" 40d. each. To Sir John, my son, 40d. To my son Austyn [Augustine] to "pay down at my buryeng" to my executors, 6 marks for the lands called Gowches, and 4 marks which he shall allow himself twelve months after my decease for the purchase of said lands; and he is also to pay my executors, in the second year after my decease, for the priest's services, 5 marks, and in the third year, 5 marks for my legacies. Executors: "Syr John Fyske the son of John Fyske and Simon Fyske my son," and they are to dispose of the residue to the most pleasure of God and the welfare of my soul.
Proved at Horham the last of February
1504/5 by the executors.
(Archdeaconry of Suffolk [Ipswich Probate Registry], book 4, fo.
135)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.