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.