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Medieval Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 26  Page 693

MARTIN LETCHEDEKEN,  Will 1430

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A translation into English from Latin / French transcriptions made by Leland L. Duncan

MARTIN LERCHEDEKEN, Canon of the Cathedral church of Exeter Monday in the week of Pentecost 1430 in my mansion (hospicio) Exeter. To be buried in the chapel of Saint Gabriel in the said Cathedral Church (Many bequests to Exeter etc). 
Item I leave to my church of Saint George of Ham part of the Cross on which The Lord Jhe hung contained in a precious round gilded. Item my casket (loculum) with divers Relics to the same church. I leave my concordances to the church of St. Thomas of Glaseney. To the College of Oryall Halle a quarternus of Sermons 2nd folio ‘Simul missi’. To the same College a ‘pair’ of Institutions 2nd fol textus ‘Magno labore’ and gloss ‘extra diffinitionem’. NOTE: Mr. J.C.C. Smith suggests that Ham is that in Kent (ded. in honour of St. George). 
In 29th VI Edward Archedekyne represented Sandwich in Parliament (Hasted IV, 262).

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