What follows is from a Google Book excerpt and I'd be most grateful if anyone could translate the latin part for me please:
TESTAMENTA EBORACENSIA by York.
CXIV. TESTAMENTUM JOHANNIS MALEVERER ARMIGERI NUPER IN PAR.
DONCASTRE DEFUNCTI.
In Dei nomine, Amen. Tercio die mensis Januarii, A.D. Millesimo cccc.lj. Ego Johannes Maleverer,* compos mentis-Lego corpus meum Sepeliendum in ecclesia Sancti Francisci. Lego vjlb. ceræ ad comburendum circa corpus meum in die sepulturæ meæ. Presbiteris et clericis existentibus ad exequias meas pro anima mea. Fratribus Minoribus Doncastriæ ubi corpus meum erit sepultum vj marcas. Fratribus Carmelitis Doncastre’ vj s. viij d. Fabricæeccles. B. Petri Ebor. vj s. viij d. Ricardo Rawlyn capellano ad celebrandum pro anima mea per tres annos xxj. marcas. Item volo quod dictus Ricardus habeat in custodia sua calicem meum deauratum, dum celebret pro anima mea, et deinde remaneat Aluredo** filio meo apud Cusseworth. Lego Edmundo Dayvell *** pece argenti cum coopertorio. Willelmo Mawleverer j. pece argenti. Alueredo Mawleverer j. pece argenti, j. hallyng pantyd, j. contyngburde, pewdyr wessell. Isabellæ Dayvell unum equum nigrum, Edmundo Dayvell unam togam optimam penulatam, Laurentio Holyngworth unam togam penulatam et unum equum. Residuum distribuendum inter filios juniores et Edmundus Dayvell, Isabella uxor ejus et Ric. Rawlyn executores mei, et quiscunque contradixerit voluntati meæ anathema sit. [Prob. 8 May 1451]
* The testator, a scion in all probability of the great family of Mauleverer, was connected with one of its flourishing branches, which was settled at Letwell. In the year 1403 John Mauleverer (the father of the testator?) and Joan his wife obtain the manor of Cusworth from Richard Leeds. This manor was now in his possession, and descended to Alured, his son. Cusworth passed from the Mauleverers in the reign of Edward V.
** Alured Mauleverer, the testator’s son, to whom the manor of Cusworth descended, died in 1455. On the 5th July in that year, the administration to the effects of Alured Malyverer, of Cusworth, was granted to Walter Calverley, of Calverley, Esq.
*** The family of Davell, or D’Eyvile, was for a long time in possession of the manor of Warmesworth. On the 7th November, 1466, Sir Edmund Mountford, rector of Warmesworth, administers to the effects of Edmund Davell of Warmesworth, gen. Mountford was presented to the rectory in 1432, by Thomas D’Eyville, the patron of the living; and he held it until his death in 1471. There was a family of Davell at Bilton, and another at Coxswold, in this century. From the latter descended the Davells, of Kirkby Fletham, in Richmondshire.
Many thanks.
Jill
