Help with a Will please

[Lady Di]

This is part if a will for Edward Bright, probated 1575.

Could SKS please tell me if this gentleman's will mentions land/estates etc in Essex? If so, what was the place called 

I really should stop downloading wills as I always have problems with them but I just can't resist finding just another tiny snippet of information about an ancestor 

Your help would be very much appreciated

Thanks

Di

[RichardK]

...to make blancketts for them fyve pounds And also towards the comfort of the pore and some people of
Saint Bartholomews Hospitall in West Smythfeld to buy some prestayne cloth of wall to make blancketts of
fyve pounds to be paied from six moneths next and immediatlie after my decease Item I give and bequeath
unto the pore housholders dwelling and inhabiting now the parish of Sowthwelde? Brandode? and
Brokestrete? in the Comitu [=County] of Essex the some of Six pounds thirtene shillings foure pence of lawfull
money of England at the discretion of my executors Provided alwaies that the leaste houshold have no
less than xijd [i.e. 12 pence] and none to have above iis [i.e. 2 shillings] Item I give and bequeath unto the two compti? to Say in the...

I can't tie up the place names with anywhere I recognise in Essex I'm afraid.

[RichardK]

Aha! Got them - South Weald, Brentwood and Brook Street.

[Lady Di]

Oh brilliant - thank you so much Richard.

I'll now check each place and try and see why he left money to them or if he lived there at some stage.

The big win with this will was that he actually mentions his wife by name (Mabell). I expected her name to remain as "unknown" forever.

Really appreciate your help

Thank you 

Di

[RichardK]

Looking at it, South Weald, Brentwood and Brook Street were all part of the parish of South Weald - which explains why he refers to this parish in the singular.  He's just giving a long name for the parish, probably indicating that the villages of Brentwood and Brook Street were already larger than the mother village of South Weald.

[Lady Di]

I just found them all on a map. Looks like the ideal position for a country estate - close proximity to London yet still in the country.

I probably wont find Parish Records going back to this time but I'll check the archives as well.

Many thanks

Di