WILL OF HUGH LACYE dated 20 September 1570
“of Brearley, Esq, within the township of Midgley
“To be buried in the Parish Church of Halifax. To the Vicar of said Church, for my mortuary, according to the statute in that case provided.
“I give to my son and heir, John Lacye, two great iron chimneys and all my best apparel, together with all my armour, harness and weapons ( except my best steel coat, or coat of plate and my best steel cap, or ‘scolle’), which I will that my son Gilbert Lacye shall have to his own use.
“To Margaret, my daughter, now wife of William Farrer; to Alice my daughter, late wife of John Houldswoth of Astray; to Agnes, my daughter, now wife of Christopher Deighton; to Elizabeth, my daughter, now wife of Jasper Blithman, to Ellen, my daughter, now wife of John Deane, of the Deanhouse, five marks each to be paid to them by by executor hereafteer named, upon that 50 lb of currency money of England which lately heretofore I did lend unto our Sovereign Ladye the Queen’s Majesty that now is, Elizabeth, within one month; next after that, the same sum of 50 lb. Shall be paid to my said executor or assigns.
“And in case that it chance my said executor be not paid the said sum of 50 lb. By the Queen’s Majesty, that now is, her heirs or successors, then my mind is that my said executors shall not be charged to pay any of my said daughters the said several sums of five marks, or any part thereof, for amend, as I have given to every one of them at the time of their several marriages a sufficient portion of my goods for their preferment in marriage, and have general acquitances of them, or their said husbands, declaring them to be satisfied for their child’s portion of my said goods.
“The rest of the 50 lb. And also Her Majesty’s Privie Seale for the same, with residue of all my goods to my youngest son, Gilbert, my sole executor. I make William Farrer of the Ewoods, and John Deane of Deanhouse, my son-in-law, Overseers.
Witnesses John Watson, Willm. Hanson, Wllm. Sladin, John Hanson.
Proved July 31, 1573 bu Executors named.
Tom Sutcliffe (130-1) Halifax Antiquarium Society, 1 Sept 1922 “ The Brearley Halls, Upper and Lower”
Submitter Ruth Keys Clark
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