To be buried in Laxfeld parish. To the high alter there, for tithes forgotten, 3s. 4d. To the repair of the parish church 6s. 8d. To the repair of the bell 3s 4d. To the repair of the Chapel of Our Lady in said parish and for arrears of some rent pertaining to said chapel 6s. 8d. To Our Lady's Gild in Laxfeld 3s. 4d. Bequests to the Friars of Dunwich and Orford (Suffolk). To my son, Master John Fyske, to sing for me a year after my decease, a sufficient stipend. To the poor in Laxfeld 10s. To the mending of foul ways 20s. To each godchild 12d. To each "Bell chyld of mine" 12d. To my daughter Johane 5 marks. To my daughter Maryon 6s. 8d. To Margaret Kempe a heifer. My house and land are to be sold, except a pightle bought of Nicholas Baas, to be sold to him at a "meone" price. My son Jeffrey is to have the first purchase and within 40s of any other. "Nevertheless I am otherwyse counselled by my other children wherefore finally I put it to the discrescion of my executors & specially my son Master John Fyske to say how my son Jeffrey shall pay." He who purchases my place is to have the stock of "beys" (bees) there lying and to pay 2 lbs. way to the light before the crucifix in Laxfeld church as long as the stock shall endure, if so much increase of wax come yearly off the said stock. Executors and residuary legatees: my sons Master John Fyske and Symond Fyske, to dispose to the health of my soul; and to each of them 6s. 8d.
Proved 13 May 1504 by
Master John Fyske, with power reserved to Simon Fyske.
(Archdeaconry of Suffolk [Ipswich Probate Registry], book 4, fo.
134)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.