Will of Robert Aylmer 1493

[WillowG]

Oh, thank you so much, HD!!! This was wonderful!

Does anybody have any idea where Helmyngton might be?

He is clearly fond of his wife, Elizabeth I wonder if the sons' behaviour is already giving him cause for concern? He adds no such stipulation for his daughter, Cecile.

Thank you so much again, HD! Wonderful work!

[WillowG]

(The probate is clearly blank? In case I have missed something obvious? Will at Ancestry - Last page

[WillowG]

'Our' Elizabeth?

Short title: Knyvet v Aylmer.
Plaintiffs: Sir William Knyvet, knight.
Defendants: Elizabeth, late the wife of Robert Aylmer, and William Ferrour, his executors, and Thomas Cause and John Westgate, executors of John Wellys.
Subject: Detention of property of Robert Toppis.
Norfolk.
9 documents
Date: 1493-1500
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7460759

[hanes teulu]

A Richard Aylmer was one of the two Sheriffs of Norwich 1501. A Robert Aylmer was one of the two sheriffs 1471
from "A compleat history of the famous city of Norwich; from the earliest account, to the present year1728" - published 1728

[WillowG]

A Richard Aylmer was one of the two Sheriffs of Norwich 1501. A Robert Aylmer was one of the two sheriffs 1471
from "A compleat history of the famous city of Norwich; from the earliest account, to the present year1728" - published 1728

Oh, excellent! Thank you so much!

[horselydown86]

Snippet #9:

...of this my testament and last will and in other dedys of mercy for my soule and the soules afore

said Item I bequeith to William Gylbert xl s  Item I require all my feoffes of and in all my landes

and tenementes beforesaid to make astate therof to myn executo(r)s or to such p(er)sonnes as myn exe

cutours shall name or assigne according to the affecte of this my last will whan so ev(er) my said feoffes

by myn executours therto be requyred The Residue of all my goodes and Catalles with all the...


Does anyone know exactly what is meant when someone (often feoffees, as here) is required to make astate?

I have several similar requests in wills from the early decades of the C16th.

Internet search engines just return results for the noun state.

(Willow, note that this term is used in #7, except it is written:  make a state of the same landes and tenementes)

[horselydown86]

Snippet #10:

...dettes to me owing.  I geve and co(m)myte to the good disposition of myn executo(r)s they to pay my

dettes to p(er)fo(r)me this my testament and last will and dispose in other dedys of pitie and m(er)cy

for my soule and the soules beforesaid to the most pleasure of god and profite to my soule of this

my testament myn executours the foresaid Elisabeth my wif Thomas [Beairfeld? / Beawfeld?] Thomas

Cans citezins and aldermen of Norwich and William fferro(r) the younger citezine of Norwich

scryvener I make and ordeigne by this p(re)sentes And I bequeith to ev(er)ich of them for theire Labou(r)

C s yevon undre seale day yere and place above writen

[hanes teulu]

https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec00stryuoft

Click on link. You can either turn pages to find page 126 or click on magnifying glass to right of book (search inside) and search for "richard aylmer" - page 126 has wife's given name.

[Vance Mead]

Robert Aylmer, of Norwich, alderman and grocer, occurs several times in the records of Common Pleas. For example, in 1480:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no871/aCP40no871fronts/IMG_0456.htm

Trinity term, 1480, third entry:
Norwich. Thomas Kyng, clerk, vicar of Scothowe, versus Philip Curson, of Norwich, draper; and Robert Aylmer, alderman of Norwich, grocer. Debt of 23 marks.

And an earlier Robert Aylmer, in 1422:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0335.htm
Michaelmas term, 1422, sixth entry:
Suffolk. Thomas Robekyn versus Robert Aylmer, of Norwich, notary. Debt of 16 pounds.

The records that have been indexed can be searched here:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40_Indices.html