Will
of John YONGE of Hythe, Kent 23
October1501
John,
son of Alexander YONGE, 23 October1501.
Buried in churchyard of St Leonard of Hyth.
High altar 12d. Brotherhood of St John of which I am a brother 12d.
My father have my grene gown, worsted doblet, my brother my best gown,
my grandam my russet gown.
John MILYS a worsted doblet and crimson jaket.
All my woollen cloth in my shop be priced as near to their value, and if
any young man of honest and good conversation will buy some cloth, tho’
he be poor, to have same at the price fixed, upon condition he find
security to pay my Executors at such days as they shall give him, and
the first day of payment shall not be within a year of my death. Also
Executors shall buy or do to be bought four broad-cloths of gray, or as
much as will come to ten marcs (£6.13s.4d), as shall be
convenient for religious men to wear, and that cloth to be given upon
next Good Friday to the Prior of the Observant bothers in Canterbury,
they to pray for my soul and all good Christian souls.
When Executors receive my debts or the money for the cloth, to provide a
priest to sing for my soul in St Leonard’s church for quarter of a
year, having 33s.4d. The residue of the money to my five sisters (not
named) equally at their marriage, each heir to other.
Residue of goods after paying debts, etc. to John BOWES and my father,
my Executors.
Witnesses – John MYLIS, Thomas JOHN.
Probate 26 January 1501-2.
Consistory Vol.7, Fol. 18.