Will Recital

Reference Number: BC/6/2/1/1/61
Level of Description: Item
Title: Will Recital
Date: c.1300
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: Reciting that Richard Junior, Knight, has inspected the will of his father Richard, and mother, Eva, under the seal of the official of the Mayor of Bath, by which Eva, widow of Richard le Knyth, bequeathes her body to be buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, to Richard, her son, a house of stone which Richard, her husband, left her, so that Richard and his heirs should celebrate every week yearly the mass of the deceased for her father's and her own soul in the church of St. Michael near the Baths, and for this she appoints her son, Richard, and Adam Fullo, executors, and her parish priest and Richard Everard, overseers; and confirming the will before the witnesses.
Witnesses: John le Veniur, Mayor; Richard Tabernarious; Eustace Mercator; Gilbert Cissor; William Suel.
Language: Latin

Former Reference number BC151/1/61