Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 22  Page 104

Arnold SAUAGE,  Will 7 September 1429

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ARNOLD SAUAGE Knight. Year 1420. To be buried in the chapel of the Blessed Mary in the parish church of Bobbyng. Above all I wish that my executors fulfill entirely the last will of my father if not carried out in the time of my life. viz to have a priest celebrating for three years continually in the parish church of Bobbyng and in the chapel of St. Nicholas of Chesilheld as in my fathers will is more fully contained. I wish that the legacies of my father, the things to be sold and gifts to servants in money be carried out. I leave to the parish church of Bobbyng a chalice, a missal and all my other ecclesiastical or divine service books which I shall have at the time of my death. I leave twenty marcs to the making of a stone with two images of Laton [brass] lying thereon like a man armed with the arms of my father above the body of my father and a ‘epitaph’ of the time of his death written round the said stone and also with an image in the similitude of my mother lying in form of a ‘kertell’ of Arms of Sir William de Echingham father of the forsaid lady and in a mantell of Arms of my father. 
I leave to the parish of Bobbyng 6s. 8d. To the parish clerk 40d. I leave for the soul of Isabell Gerrard to the high altar of Bobbyng 40d. I wish that the next Good Friday when the body of our Lord Jesu Christ, which is and shall be blessed for ever and ever, shall be placed in the sepulchre, my executors have placed in the church of Bobbyng fifteen wax candles each of 7 lb of wax and fifteen ‘morteris’ of wax each of a pound of wax at the least. I wish that at the next feast of St. Michael after my decease my executors deliver to the wardens of the Sepulchre Light fifteen cows price per head 10s to sustain the same light, if God please, for ever. I leave in honour of the Passion of our Lord Jhu Xpi to sustain the lights before the high Cross five cows price per head 10s. In honour of the most Blessed Mother of God the Virgin Mary to sustain her light five cows price 10s. To sustain the light of the Blessed Katerine and Saint Margaret three cows price per head as before. 
I wish my executors find a priest for seven years to celebrate for my soul and the souls of my father and mother and all my progenitors and all faithful departed with a Trental of St. Gregory. And I wish the said chaplain celebrate in the parish church of Bobbyng from the feast of St. Michael to the feast of Easter and from Easter to the feast of St. Michael in the chapel of Chesilhelde except on Sundays and in the festival days and whenever a body is present and in obsequies of the dead. 
Residue to Katerine my wife Executors and said Katerine and John Seyntleger of Plukle. Dated in the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary. 
No probate is entered. His brass at Bobbing states he died ‘in festo Nativitatis beate Marie Virginis’. The Will must therefore have been made on his deathbed. (338b Chichele I).

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