John Dudley 1528

[Taylor94]

Hoping for a transcription on this piece as ell. I've recently come across this and assume it to be the will of John Dudley of Swepstone, Leicestershire 1528.
Once again, I can catch and assume some parts but id like to have a better set of eyes and understanding of the script take a look.

[Bookbox]

Testamentum Joh(ann)is Dudley de Sweppeston
(The will of John Dudley of Swepstone)

In dei no(m)i(n)e Amen the v day of August Anno D(omi)ni M ccccc xx viij [5 August 1528] My body to be buried in the church

yart of Swepston  My mortuary aft(er) custom  It(em) to Lincoln – iiij^d  It(e)m to the church of Sweppiston

A Cow p(re)c(io)* – xiij^s iiij^d  It(e)m I will that the high Awt(er) of Swepston have ij tap(er)s A pound a pece p(ro) decimis

& obla(tioni)b(us) allic(is)**  It(e)m I will that iij li(bras) [= 3 pounds] of wax be burned about my body the Day of my burying  The Residue of

my good(es) I will that they be devided in iij p(ar)ties the one to beyr my funerall exspens(es) the second to [damaged]

Wif & the iij^de to my children  It(em) I will if any leff of my p(ar)te at my buriall to be devidid betwene my wif & [damaged]

children by even porc(i)ons  It(e)m I will that Jo[an?] my wif & Will(iam) my son(n) be myn executo(ur)s  And Will(ia)m Myl [damaged]

& Will(iam) goyre sup(er)viso(ur)s  Witnes s(ir) henry barker henry ffenton Thom(a)s Elsby[?] & John chilwill & od(er) mo

*  = worth (lit., ‘by price’)
** = for due tithes and payments

[Treetotal]

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Carol

[Bookbox]

It’s mainly down to practice, Carol. Each to our own. The expert work you do on Photo Restoration is something I could never dream of achieving.

[Vance Mead]

I suppose this must be the same man, in the Court of Common Pleas, Trinity term 1527.

Leics. Alice, Abbess of Pollesworth, versus John Dudley, of Swepson, husbandman, for trespass breach of close at Swepson.



First entry:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/H8/CP40no1055/aCP40no1055fronts/IMG_0015.htm

[Taylor94]

Thank you very much for this, the swepston registers are very hit and miss in the 1500s. Trying to tie this John in with the Richard Dudley, Husbandman who dies 1587, possibly grandfather or father.

Thats could be the same, whatva great find.
Is there a database for those pleas? I'm trying to find as much info as I can on the swepstone Dudley's in 1500s as they are said to descend from the Dudleys who were lords of the manor of Clopton, Northamptonshire in the 1300s/1400s.

[Bookbox]

Stripping down the link given by Vance (above) will take you to the front page of the site ...
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/

[Vance Mead]

There are some indexes here:

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

Some of these records can also be searched here:

http://www.uh.edu/waalt/index.php/Main_Page


Here is a lawsuit with the Dudleys of Clopton, Hilary term, 1531:

Nhants. Edward Mountague, of Hemyngton, esq; Nicholas Hardyng, of Noryell, Beds, esq; William Dudley, of Clopton, gent; Robert Dudley, of Clopton, gent; William Stokys, of Thyendon, clerk (defendants), summoned to answer Richard Busshopp for ejectment from manor of Boughton (to recover possession of the land plus damages).

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H8/CP40no1068/bCP40no1068dorses/IMG_2302.htm