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  1. Matthew Boynton, and Marmaduke and Brian Tunstall. His best ambling horse to the wife of his brother Thomas. To each of his executors, his brother Thomas, Sir Thomas Franke and Sir William Pynder £3 6s. 8d. for their expenses. And £3 6s. 8d. to his master Sir William Bullmer, to his mother Dame Margaret Boynton, to his sister Dame Isabell Tunstall and to his brother Thomas Tempest, who are to be supervisors of his will.
  2. Matthew, mentioned in his mother's will.
  3. Isabell, married to Brian Tunstall.

Dame Margaret Boynton after her husband's death, took the veil, 12th June, 1495, and her will dated 2nd September, 1533, was proved at York 3rd August, 1536.[1] By her will she desires to be buried in the Church of Barmston or else in the Church within the parish where she may chance to die, and further desires that 25 masses of the five principle wounds of our Lord be said for her soul on the day of her burial or within five days after without delay, and three priests are to sing for her soul, her husband's and all Christian souls within the Church of Barmston for one year, and at the end of each mass to say De profundis, and every Friday during the year to have one mass of Jesus sung or said by the three priests; at the end of three weeks Placebo and Dirige cum obseguis mortuorum. Twice a year these three priests shall be paid seven marks sterling. She expresses the desire that her son Matthew should enter in possession of Barmston and Winton[2] at her death. Her plate she leaves to her son Marmaduce Tunstall, namely "a salte of sylver gilte with a cover, a standynge cuppe gilte with a cover, a goblet gilte with a cover, a standynge cuppe percell gilte with a cover, sex silver spones, and the best counterpoynte within my house for a bedde." She bequeathed to the monastery of Nunappleton ij stottes.

  1. Test. Ebor. VI, 36.
  2. Wynckton in Holderness.