East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties of Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk Volume 8-9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... wief my black cowe and thother Cowe I give to Willih my Bonne, And the Rye nowe growing in Stratforde by Holton he payeng to the Widowe Poyken fortie shillings, And alsoe to delyuer xij bushells of Rie at my nowe dwelling howse in Highrh to Agnes my wief before the feast of 8' Michaell nowe next comming, And the Rest of my goodes vnbequeathed I will shalbe put in an Inventorie and be prised by thre or iiijor Indifferent men and all my other debtes and funerall charges being deducted I will Rob. Patrich thelder of Sudbury formerly of Acton, yeoman, in his will dated 8 Dec.. 1489, bequeathed to Robert his son" my spruce Compter and Gmdenceg Evidences in the same," which Mr. W. H. St. John Hope explains as follows: "It was a deed chest. The top of the box was perhaps square, and painted with a chess board, on which the owner did his accounts with counters in the usual manner then prevalent. That is how we get the word ' compter ' or 'counter, ' because it waa a computatorium. 'Spruce' of course means fir wood." See Procicdinga of the Sufi. Inst. of Arch, for 1899, vol. x. pt. ii. paper on " Partridge of Acton, Sudbury, and Lavenham, Suffolk," section B, note 10. t What is the meaning of curble Curble = a mouth. This is a Suffolk word, not we believe to be found in glossaries of local dialect.--Ed.. shalbe equallie deuided betwixt my saied wief and all my children by equal porcons or the valewe thereof soe to be prised, Prouided alwaies neuerthelesse that if anie of them doe mislike and will not be contented with porcons I haue willed them as abouesaied as well for my good will as also for all other demaundes and duties, Then I will that he fo. 97b or she and as manie and euerie of them that shall soe dislike and be discontented s...