The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

Reinold and Matthew Marvin 37
schall have xiij chepe iiij lambys and viij 1 ' wooll Item I wyll that
my executors schall delyver to the seyd Elyzabeth my wyff viij
bushelles whete and iiij busshelles malte Item I wyll the seyd
Elizabeth shall have all her apparell Item I bequeth to Elyzabeth
my dowghter her mothers gyrdell The Resydevve of all my
goodys not bequethyd I geve to my sonys Robert Marvyn and John
Marvyn whom I make my executors to fulfyll thys my last wyll
Item I wyll John Benet and William Warde delyver astate to my
sonys acordynge to thys my wyll wytnesse of thys premyss Syr
Amy Lecke vicar of Waschebrook John Woode of Lytyll Wenham
Stephyn Pascall of the same John Coppynge of Brantham Raffe
Pulford and John Bury of Waschebrooke
Proved at Ipswich 2 August, 15 15*
A few of the expressions in the above Will may receive
explanation: — "All Hallows" is the feast of All Saints, or
1 November ;
Easter always occurs about five months later.
" Keys " is a provincial English plural of cow, from the
Anglo-Saxon cy, having the same meaning (equivalent to
kine) ; a " Cowe-boloke " was also a provincial term for a
young cow or heifer. The " chepe " (sheep) and other farm
stock disposed of, show that he was a farmer, while his direc-
tions to "John Benet and William Warde" prove that he
was a landlord as well, leasing portions of his estate. From
these items, and from the bequest of ten marks to his wife,
it is evident that he was a man of fair estate for the period.
A mark was 13^., 4^., and ten marks was therefore J~6, 13s.,
4a 7
. The relative value of money was not as great as in the
Recorded at Ipswich, Suffolk Wills, Book VII (1513-18), fo. 94. There is no
punctuation in these Wills. The spelling has been closely followed.