[Sidenote: 1510 / MAY 31]
‘Dame Agnes Paston, widow, late the wife of Sir John Paston, Knight,
deceased,’ makes her will 31 May, A.D. 1510, 2 Hen. VIII. To be buried,
if she die in London, in the church of the Black Friars, by her husband
John Harvy; or, if she die in Kent, in the parish church in Sondryche.
Goods in three chests to be divided among her three sons, George,
Thomas, and Edward. Bequeaths to her son George Hervy a pair of large
sheets of her own spinning, and all her bedding at Sondryche to her son
Thomas Isley. Other bequests to John Palmer of Otteford, to the parson
of Brasted, to her daughter Isabel Isley, her cousin Alys Petham, to
Margaret Palmer, to Mrs. Bygote ‘with my Lady Marqueys.’[209-2] To her
son-in-law William Hatteclyff a basin and ewer, parcel gilt, for 20
marks, if he will give so much for it; otherwise it is to go to her sons
George Harvy and Edw. Isley. To her son George a silver salt with a
cover, at Leuesham. To her chaplain Sir Robert ‘the complete bedde
within my little draught chambre att Sonderiche,’ and 10 marks a year
for 5 years, to pray for her soul and the souls of John Hervy, Sir John
Paston, and John Isley, her husbands. To her son Thomas Isley’s
children, and her own and her daughter Isabel Hatteclyff’s children, 5
marks each. To her son George Hervy, ‘a standing cupp with a kever,
silver and gilt with sekylles,’ and a gold cross. To her daughter Isley
a ring with a rebewe. To her son Thomas Isley her gelding. Other
bequests to her cousins Margaret Palmer and Thos. Waserer’s wife; also
to young Potter, the man of law, to Agnes Waserer, and to Eliz. mother
to Thomas Waserer’s wife, to Joan Julles, William Tidman, to her servant
Kyllingworth, to Vincent her housekeeper, to Sir Robert, parish priest
of Sonderyche, to Sir William of Nokold. Mr. Robert Scalys parson of
Braysted to be overseer of her will; her sons George Harvy and Thos.
Isley to be her executors.
Proved at Lambeth, 19 June 1510.
[Footnote 209-1: [Register Benet, 29.]]
[Footnote 209-2: Cecily, widow of Thomas, first Marquis of
Dorset.]