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A COLLECTION OF WILLS OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN SURREY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1197 and 1522.
COMMUNICATED BY MISS JULIA R. BOCKETT.
Many years ago Miss Bockett's grandfather, Mr. Bradney, of Ham, found some wills in a chest in Kingston Church, Surrey. He copied several, one of which Miss Bockett sent to "Notes and Queries" from whoso pages the first of the following wills is transcribed.
"The Will of Richard Knyvet, Luter, tempore Hen. VII.
"In the name of God, Amen. The viii th day of the moneth of Aprill, theyere of our Lord God 1497, and in the xii th yere of the regne of Kyng Henry the Vllth. I, Richard Knyvet, of South werk in the countie of Surr', luter, beying in holl mynd and clere memory, thanked be our Lord God, make and ordeyn this my testament and last will in maner ensuyng. Eirst, I bequeth my sowll to Almighty God, my Maker and Savyour, and to the glorious Vergeyn, our Laclye Seynt Mary, his blesset Moder, and to all the holy company of hevyn, and my body to be buryed in the church hawe of my parysh church of Seynt Mary Magdalene, in Southwerk beforesaid, in such place or buryell that the cross there shall stand on the right syde of my burying. Item, I bequeth to the high awter of the said church for my oll'eryngs forgotten iiid. Item, I bequeth to Willm Wath my
