To be buried in the churchyard there "where all my frinds be buried aforetime." To my wife Alice the tenement I dwell in in Laxfield and lands thereto, for her life, and on condition that she keep it in repair and bring up my three children, viz., Nicholas, Anne, and Christian, until they be of age, and pay my daughter Anne £10 at [the age of] twenty. Also I give to Anne, my daughter, the house which I lately bought of John Storke of Laxfild as it is enclosed, to have it at fifteen years of age; and my wife also is to pay my daughter Christian £20, when twenty. If either die, the other is to be heir. If my wife die before my son Nicholas is twenty, then the tenement I live in is to be let until the £30 is paid. To my son Nicholas the tenement I live in and lands subject to the said £30, and [he is] to have, when he enters the same, ten milch kine or £6. 13s. 4d. Also to Nicholas a gelding or 26s. 8d., a "cubbord" in the hall, and the tables, forms, and tressles there. To my wife Alice all kine and horses and all other goods, pewter, etc. To the poor of the towns adjoining 10s. Residue to my executors, John Jacobb of Fornecette [Forncett, Norfolk], Edmond Crispe of Laxfild, and Alice, my wife, and to each 10s. for their pains. Witnesses: John Nollothe, Robt Dalling, Robt Lane, Wm. Whiteman, Thos Plumpton, and others.
Proved 5 April 1551 by the executrix,
with power reserved to the other executors.
(Consistory Court of Norwich, Register for 1550-51, fo. 136)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.