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Deeds relating to the Shaa properties (ff. 271r–280r)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2023

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Folios 271r–280r contain documents concerning the Shaa properties.

A different hand writes this section.

The will of Sir Edmund Shaa [20 March 1487/88]

In the name of God be it Amen: the xxth day of the monthe of Marche the yere of oure lord God after thaccompte of the churche of England a. M CCCC lxxxvij and the thred yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the vijth, I EDMUNDE SHAA, knyght, cytezen and goldsmyth, alderman and late Mayre of the cyte of London, though I be visited with sikenes of the visitacion of oure lord God Jhesu Crist, neverthelesse being of hole mynd and in good memory, not willyng with the helpe of God in asmoche as in me is to departe intestate out of this mortall lyff, make and ordeyne this my present testament in the fourme that foloweth: FURST, I bequeth and recommend my sowle to my lord Jhesus Crist, my maker and my redemer, to the most glorious virgine his modir our lady Saint Mary, to the full glorious confesser Saint Dunstone, and to the holy company of hevyn. And my body to be buried in the body of the churche of Saint Thomas of Acres in London, that is to saye betweyn the piler of the same churche where uppon the image of Saint Michelle tharchaungelle stondith before the auter ther callid Saint Thomas auter and the nederend of the same churche, that is to wete as nygh to the same piler as my body ther reasoble [sic] may be leyd. And inconsideracion that I have borne the office of mairaltye of the said cyte, I woll for the honour of the same cyte that my body be brought from my howse to the parishe churche of Saint Peters in Chepe, wher I am a parishoner, as the maner is, and from thens to my buryng at Saint Thomas of Acres aforesaid in discrete and honest wyse without pompe of the worlle [sic]. And I woll have xxiiij honest torcheis to be borne by xxiiij pore persons to convey my body from my howse to my said parishe churche as the maner is and so to my buryng aforesaid.

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