ECR 36 126
Reference code
ECR 36 126
Title
Penn, Buckinghamshire: Letter concerning will
Level
Item
Date
16th century
Content description
William Garnet, priest, Hugele 23 September [ ], to the Provost. He came to Hugele to the place of master Richard Bulstrode, squyer, to be in service with him and dwell there thirty three years ago next Michaelmas and has continued so with him and his wife and afterwards his son, Edward Bulstrode, squyer, and his three wives. He was acquited with one Jenkyn Frenche, of Hugele, and two or three times a week made merry with him. Falling sick, Frenche asked him to make his will for him but Garnet advised him to employ the parson of Farnham or some other curate having a perpetuity. So he desired Sir John Webster, the parson of Hugele, to write it for him and the latter did write it. Frenche then sent for Garnet and asked him to read it, and he read among other things that he willed all his lands in Bucks, except a tenement called Sylvesters in Hugele, to Margaret, his wife, for her life, and after her decease to John Frenche, his eldest son in tail male with remainder to the next heirs male of the Frenches bearing the name of Frenche. He asked Garnet if the will was good. Garnet asked whether the lands were in his own estate or in feoffees' hands. He answered that they were in feoffees' hands, John Aldryge, of Wodeland, and Richard Cryps, of Farnham, the younger. Then Garnet said is was sufficient. After this Frenche lived a week, then died. Afterwards John Frenche, his eldest son, became master Edward Bulstrode's servant and had his livery " and he desyred hym to be so good maistre unto hym" that the said John Aldryge and other with him might seal unto him a deed of refeoffment and give estate therein unto him. And so Bulstrode desired Garnet to write a deed of feoffment, which he did, not remembering the will of Jenkyn Frenche. When he took it to Aldryge and read it to him, Aldryge asked whether he had with him the deed by which he and Crypes were enfeoffed or the will of his cousin, Jenkyn Frenche. Garnet had neither. The Aldryge asked to be excused for he would not seal the deed of feoffment Farnet had brought with him. Meanwhile Margaret Frenche sent for her two younger sons, Roger and Richard Frenche, desiring Aldryge not to seal unto such time that she might speak with him. So Garnet brought the deed back unsealed, and Margaret enjoyed the premises for the rest of her life.
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