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JOHN DE SCAPEYA,  Will 21 Sept 1360

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I, brother JOHN DE SCAPEYA, unworthy bishop of the Cathedral church of Rochester, 21 day of September 1360. To be buried in the said church where my executors shall ordain with consent of the Prior. For my funerals viz for distribution to be made amongst the poor and other necessaries on the day of my death until my burial 100 marcs. I wish that I may have round my body more than 24 wax candles. My executors to invite the Abbot of Boxle, with the Prior of Ledes that they with the Prior of Rochester may place my wretched body in the earth or sarcophagus. I wish my executors make proclamation publicly in London, Derteford, Rochester, Newynton and Sydyngborne that if anyone to whome I owe any debt will come to the place assigned by my executors and produce the documents they shall be paid before all legacies. I leave to my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of my death 50 marcs. To the Chancellor 5 mrcs, the Auditor Causarum 40s., his Registrar 2 mrcs. and apparitor one marc, on these conditions that as soon as my executors shall come to the said Lord of Canterbury to prove my will and afterwards with the Inventory the said Lord and his officials shall be friendly to the said executors etc. I leave to the Prior and Chapter of my church of Rochester in recompense of any negligencies, expenses etc made by me 100 marcs placed in the common chest closed with three keys to make reparations within the monastery. 
To the said Prior and Convent my white vestment viz; chasuble, tunicle and dalmatic for a bishop and tunicle and dalmatic for deacon and subdeacon and four copes with albs stoles and phanons, ridells and frontells of the same suit. To the same Prior and Convent my new mitre of the work of John de Coloigne save that my immediate successor shall have under certain conditions below written and not otherwise the use of the said mitre for his life as in my last will is described. To the same P. & C. 50 yards of linen cloth and 50 yards of canvas cloth to make sheets for those coming to the said monastery. To each Monk professed and a priest half a mark and those professed not priests 5s. 
To the Office of the Cellarer 100 lb of peper. To the Prior of Rochester and to the said P. & C. a "Biker" with cover to remain always in the Refectory in my memory which was given to me by John de Middleton in which the president in refectory may drink on the day of my death and other times as it may please him. To Brother William de Hadloo if he shall be alive at my death any gown of mine he chooses. To the same 12 yards of linen cloth and twelve yards of ‘cloth of canvas’. To Brother William de Strode 10 yards of black dyed wool (bruneto) cloth for a mantle and tunic and all my and 5s. for the carriage of them. To Brother John Morell 6 yards of dyed wool cloth and a "capa scolastica" and 20s. for his other necessaries. 
I leave to my immediate successor a new vestment of powdered with scalops with all the belongings viz. chasuble, stole, phanon, Cope, white tunicle, dalmatic frontell and covering to match. I leave to the same under like conditions a ‘hall’ with butterflies which I bought from Nicholas Maryny and another I bought from the same for £25 and worth much more and is of work of Arras and is in the keeping of the Abbess of Mallyng. I leave to the same on like conditions for three tables of his great hall two napkins and for the great table six towels to wash before meals. To the same a great basin with Ewer of Laten. I leave to the same under like conditions three basins of silver with two handbasins in the bottom of which basins are the Arms of Hadloo and 23 silver knives with 18 salts, two salts of silver and 24 spoons. I leave under the same conditions for his kitchen a of brass, two two best kitchen pans, two posnets and all my iron. Also to him under the same conditions 100 marcs in money or value in other things in whole or part according to the advice of my executors with one best chalice except the chalice belonging of old to the Bishop’s chapel, two silver phiols which are used in the greater chapel with two basins and two phiols sometime belonging to Masters Robert de Chikwell and John Barnet which basins and phiols I wish to descend to the use of the church of Rochester for ever to future pontifs. And all these things I leave to my immediate successor on these conditions that he seeks nothing further from my executors either by right or custom but gives them sufficient acquittance. 
I leave to John of Henyngton [?Kenyngton] six silver dishes, to Sir Robert de Lodesdon 20s., to Adam the clerk 40s., William Cheyne 100s. and a silver cup, John de Pynchynfeld 100s. and a silver cup, Adam Tewdre 20s., Richard atte Welde 40s., Stephen de Bereham 20s., Nicholas de Thenford 40s., John Sewale of Southflete 2 marcs, John Doure of my pantry 6 marks and a silver cup, John Barbor my chamberlain 10 marcs and a silver cup, to John Meys valet of the chamber 60s. and because the chamberlain claims to have after the death of his lords the girdle and whatever hangs from it, knife, purse and what is contained therein except the seal and other secret writings of the lord, the bed and all its belongings and often it happens that in fraud chamberlains arrange valuable cloths on the Bishop’s bed, therefore I declare that the Chamberlain may have a canvas, two mattresses, two sheets, two 
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year. I leave the said Peter all my chattels alive and dead which are owing to me of the said manor for the said 15 years. To William Cheyne, John of Fynchyngfeld and Peter my kinsman all my armour to be divided equally between them in value. I leave to Nicholas Maryng a ring with ‘rubino de Galeys’ sometime Alice Neels’s which ring with removed from its gold which they value at 100 marcs, of the gift of our Lord the King. I leave to Sir Roger de Chesterfeld a cup with gilt cover. To Sir Richard de Chestrefeld a like cup. To Walter Whitehors esquire (scutifer) of my Lord the King a silver cup with cover and a silver ewer. To each of my executors £20, 12 dishes of silver, 12 salts and two "chargeors", but if any do not administer then they are to have nothing. 
To William, dei gratia, Bishop of Wynton and chancellor of England (in margin – Edyndon) a ring with a diamond with a certain writing of friendship not on account of the value of the thing in itself but in my memory as a friend praying him as one in whom I can trust that he will be supervisor of my executors and protect and defend them against ‘malignantes’ 
I ordain as executors Master Thomas de Bradwell rector of the church of Shorham and Chapel of Otteford my Official, Sir Robert de Pleseley rector of the church of Suthflete and Sir Stephen Randulph rector of the church of Couden. The Residue I commit to my executors for my poor parishioners and tenants. I wish that if my goods or things of mine are ‘venalia’ that my executors have power to amend. Dated at La Place next Lamheth – And I John, Bishop aforesaid ‘cum manu mea tremula’ in testimony of all the premises certify with the seal of my most blessed Patron. (No probate act entered) (169b Islep).

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