Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 25  Page 578a

ARCHBISHOP PECKHAM,  Will 1292

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The Will of ARCHBISHOP PECKHAM who died in 1292 does not appear to have been preserved. That one existed is apparent from the following document entered at folio 283b of Archbishop Reynolds’ Register at Lambeth. "Ornamenta ecclesiastica liberata Domino Roberto Ambroys, clerico venerabil is Patris Domini Walteri (Reynolds) dei gratia Cantuar. Archiepiscopi totius Anglie primati apud Cantuar. die Sci. Jeromii Anno Dni. 1315 per fratrem Ricardum de Sharstede tunc Sacristan ecclesie Xpi Cantuar, per litteram dicti domini Archiepiscopi desigillo suo privato signato vidt: Mitra preciosa et baculus pastoralis Cedri quos bone memorie dominus Johannis (Peckham) quondam Cantuar. Archiepispocus legavit ecclesie Cantuar et successoribus suis per verba subscripta in testamento suo contenta: "Do lego ecclesie nostre Cant. et successoribus nostris mitram nostram preciosam et baculum nostrum pastoralem cedrum que omnia in ecclesia nostra predicta imperpetuum remanebunt". Item vestimentum integrum de rubeo samitto desuper cumramiclis arborum auro brudatis videlt. Capa chori, casula, tunica et dalmatica pro domino archiepiscopo et tunica et damatioca pro diacono et subdiacono que omnia recolende memorie dominus Robertus (Wynchelsey) Cantuar. Archiepiscopus nuper defunctus legavit ecclesie Cantuar. per verba subscripta in testamento suo contenta. (Then follows extract from his Will. For the Will see page 63 Sede Vacante Wills Canterbury, Vol. III Kent Records. It is the fourth paragraph of the Will). In quorum testimonio facta est hec indentura inter predictum fratrem Richardum, Sacristan, et predictum dominum Robertum die et anno predicto.

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