[Sidenote: 1482 / FEB. 4]
In the name of God, amen. I, Margaret Paston, widowe, late the wiff of
John Paston, Squier, doughter and heire to John Mauteby, Squier, hole of
spirit and mynde, with perfite avisement and good deliberacion, the
iiij^te day of February, in the yer of Our Lord God a m^{l.}cccclxxxj.
make my testament and last wille in this fourme folowyng. First,
I betake my sowle to God Almyghty and to Our Lady His blissid Moder,
Seint Michael, Seint John Baptist, and to Alle Seintes, and my body to
be beried in the ele of the cherch of Mauteby, byfore the ymage of Our
Lady there. In which ele reste the bodies of divers of myn aunceteres,
whos sowles God assoile.