Thank you, Maiden Stone! All of this is super-interesting!
Katherine Parr, 6th & last wife to King Henry, was from Kendal.
Katherine Parr is one of those people in history I keep coming over
Our roads keep crossing!
Forton, home of my ancestors in 18thC, is on the list.
That is so cool!
The insertion is one word of about 5 letters (in contracted form) written in the margin to the right of the word seale (see last line of Snippet #22).
It might be yoken or yoven perhaps?
I agree, though I don't know why it's there, exactly where it is to be inserted (if indeed it is), or what it signifies.
Willow, I can't read it as today. The first letter appears to be y, with a vestigial tail looping forwards, though part of it has been cut off in your snippet in reply #56. Like HD, I believe the last letter is not y, but probably a final n, with downward extension, of which there are several examples in this document. As has been pointed out, it's a contraction, so we're looking for a word longer than 5 letters which fits the context. The word today isn't often found in wills of this period; this day would be more common.
I wonder if it somehow relates to the fact that he sounds as if he's signing off here (fixing his seal, day and year aforesaid, etc.), but in practice the will goes on much further? I'm still thinking about it ...
I bow to your better judgement, Bookbox
Thank you so much for the great work you do here!
I will rack my brain trying to figure out what it can be too!
Snippet #23:
...and allso whereas I willid to my sonne Thomas after he comyth to the age of xxj yeres my
manours landis and ten(emen)tis in Creke and Cleycotton Immediatly after the dethe of
Elizabeth Counteis of Oxforde yf Anne Graye late [y? = the?] wife ^t of my brother John [Gray?] and now wife^ to sir Richarde Clement be
then lyvynge sholde be unto unto my said sonne Thomas duringe his lyf of the said Anne Graye
as by my said will afore made playnly apperithe whiche legacyes made unto my
said iij sonnes and every of them concerning the said manours landis and ten(emen)tis I revoke
and adnull by this my present will and for Recompense wherof I will that my said...
Cley Coton, Northamptonshire.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp595-610
28. Tho. marquis of Dorset. Grant, in fee, of the park called Beamount Lease, alias Beamount Wood, Leic., adjoining the King's park of Leicestre Fryth, and of Barden park, Leic.; in exchange for the Marquis's manor of Cley-Coton, Northt. Del. Westm., 28 May 17 Hen. VIII.—S.B.
I am interested in any references to Edward Wootton and Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk (Brother-in-Law of Henry VIII), as I am a bit of a collector of photocopy prints and images of documents relating to the Manor of Stockingford, alias Stokyngforth and Stoccingford & others), mine are photocopy prints of those in the Aston Charters (now in the British Library Dept of MSS).
The Manors of Stockingford were at the place called Galley Common, where finds date back 2,000 years. A Map of the Plot of Galley Common was drawn in 1590 for an Exchequer Case held in the time of Elizabeth I. The documents say the map was based on a description in an ancient Deed of Hughe Lylborne. Hugh Lilleburn registered / held property at Stockingford in 1280.
Stockingford from John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=752119.msg6005900#msg6005900
Monument to Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk Lord of the Manor of Astley, where a Hollow Oak once stood
https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_her/duke-of-suffolks-monument-astley
Enerdale mentioned earlier is Ennerdale, Cumbria. River Ehen. Apparently forfeited by Henry Duke of Suffolk, Father of Lady Jane Grey.
Mark
Thank you so much, Mark! More and more pieces falling into place. Yes, they are an extremely interesting family, aren't they?
Yes, I have been thinking about that too, as we have been going through pages and pages of listing of manors only for him to lose them all ...
