Repository Name

Public Record Office

Repository Reference

PROB11/5 (14 Godyn)

Probate Court

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

 

Thomas Ballard

East Greenwich

 

Will dated

2 July 1465

 

 

Will probated

2 July 1466


He desired to be buried near the body of Thomas Walsingham in the church of St. Catherine Hospital by the Tower of London;

 6s 8d to the altar of St. Alphege church, Greenwich, for tithes and obligations forgotten.

 40s to the fabric or the tower of Chartham church;

 43s 4d to each of four poor theological scholars at Oxford, i.e., 10d each weekly for a year;

 6s 8d to the Rector of Charlton for prayers;

 A silver goblet and his best togas to his son Robert;

 Another silver goblet to his son Humphrey;

 His real estate in E.Greenwich, Charlton and Debtford to his wife Phillipe for her life and she to make settlement on their son Robert when of age or a marriage with mother's consent;

 To son Thomas "claudus surdus et murdus" [lame, somewhat deaf and mute?] rent charges of 100s per year by the feofee if he survives his mother;

 Top son Humphrey the manor of Sappyngton in fee after Phillipe's death;

 Remainder in default to son Robert who was to succeed after his mother's death to the manor of Horton, Westcombe, Spittlecombe and all lands in Carlton and Deptford in tail male;

 Remainder in default to son Humphrey provided Robert did not interfere with his mother or executors in which case the manors were to be sold to found a charity in the chapel of the Trinity in Beckenesffold church for the souls of testator, of Richard Gregory and Alice his wife, or Gregory Ballard and Catherine his wife - testator's parents, provided always if the new king Edward IV before next Michaelmas shall fulfil on his part all the singular and conventions between said King and me made touching said manors with appurtenances to the King under certain forms, then this my will to be null.

 Probated by Phillipe.