C16th will

[Davedrave]

I’d be very grateful with any help on another passage from a will of 1571. I think this will be my last request on these. It was quite unexpected to come across these wills which overlap with the gappy parish register. I’ve posted bigger extracts now to help, but I can read some of it I think (about his burial?), but not the details of the legacy. (Second extract follows the first on the next page of will).

Thanks,

Dave

(1571 Will of Philip Lea of Coton, Parish of Mkt Bosworth, in Leics. and Rutland Record Office)

[Bookbox]

In the name of God Amen. I Philippe

Ley of Coton in the p(ar)ishe of Bosworthe in

the countie of Leicester doe make my laste

wyll and testament in man(er) and forme

folowinge  ffyrst I com(m)itt my soule unto

allmightie god &c and my body to the

grounde ffrom whenche itt came &c

ffyrst I wyll that my sonne wyll(ia)m Leye

shall have Iinoye* and posses all that (his) ...

          * = enjoy

[Bookbox]

... his good(es) and Cattell[s?] moveable and unmoveable

w(hi)ch be his owne and in his propper possession

att the making hereof  And I wyll that

the said will(ia)m shall have moreover & besyd(es)

x^li to be paied hym w(i)thin tewelfe monethes

after my descease  It(em) I geve unto henrie and

michaell my sonnes either of them to have xiij^li

vj^s viij^d a peice to be paied them in or att

the daie of the marriinge* of their mother

(yf ytt please god that she doe marrie

or els to be paied them att the age of

xxj^ti yeres  It(em) I wyll that Agnes my ...

     * = marrying

[Davedrave]

Many thanks Bookbox, this is very helpful. I knew from an estate document that William, presumably this son, occupied a farm in Coton a few years later, but I had no idea before seeing the will, that Philip was connected with Coton (I only knew that he was paying a large amount of Lay Subsidy in Bosworth parish). I now know, thanks to your reading of the will, that he had other sons who are missing from the Bosworth parish registers (which only begin around the time of Philip’s death) and it reinforces the likelihood that the John Ley who first appears in the earliest parish records of Shenton (adjoining Coton) in 1622, was related.

Dave