Notes for Peter de la Hay and Cecilia

The will of Peter de la Hay, of Spaldyngton, from Testamenta Eboracensia. [1]

[D. f. 319-b.]
In Dei nomine, Amen. In festo Sancti Valentini anno Domini MCCCXLV Ego Petrus del Hay de Spaldyngton condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis do et lego animam meam Deo omnipotenti et beatse Mariae et omnibus Sanctis et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in cimiterio Omnium Sanctorum de Bubwyth, et cum corpore meo prout moris est. Item do lego in cerâ ad comburendum circa corpus meum in die sepulturae meae vj^s. viij^d. Item do lego in distribucione pauperum quinque marcas arg'. Et convocatione vicinorum meorum duas marcas. Item do lego quatuor marcas argenti cuidam capellano celebranti pro anima meâ in Capellâ de Spaldyngton per unum annum integrum. Item do lego x^s. ad emendacionem capellse mese de Spaldyngton. Item ad emendacionem capellae de Wilghtoft ij^s. Item domino Johanni vicario xviij^d. Item domino Thomae capellano parochiali xij^d. Item domino Nicholao in Spaldyngton capellano xij^d. Item do lego fabrica e ecclesia e beati Petri Ebor. ij^s. Item cuilibet ordini fratrum Ebor. dimidiam quarteriam bladi. Item do lego Elizabethae filiae meae moniali in prioratissâ de Thikhede xx^s. Item Johannae filiae meae manenti in Swyn vj^s. viij^d. Item Katerinae filiae meae unam vaccam branded juniorem. Item Ibottae ancillae meae unam jumentam. Item do lego Willielmo famulo meo unum lectum integrum et unam robam integram. Item do lego Katerinae filiae Johannis Fancourt iij^s. iiij^d. Item Roberto filio ejusdem Johannis iij^s. iiij^d. Item do lego totum residuum omnium bonorum meorum Ceciliae uxori meae quam quidem Ceciliam executricem meam una cum Johanne filio meo et Thomâ filio meo et Johanne consanguineo meo ordino et constituo ad istud testamentum fideliter exequendum. In cujus __ Datum apud Spaldyngton die et anno supradictis. [Prob. xxxj. Oct^r. MCCCXLVII.]

John P Ravilious gave the following summary. [2]

Peter de la Hay
Death: bef 31 Oct 1347[1]
of Spaldington, co. Yorks.

~ possibly identical with 'Petrus de Hay', lord of Spaldington (fl. ca. 1297), identified in Kirkby's Inquest, p. 309[2] (possibly his father)

will of Peter de la Hay, dated feast of St. Valentine, 1345 (proved 31 Oct 1347) [Test. Ebor. I:12-13[3]]

Spouse: Cecilia
Children: John (-<1393), Elizabeth, Joan. Katherine, Thomas (->1379)

1. "Testamenta Eboracensia [Selection of Wills, Reg. at York]," The Surtees Society, Andrews & Co., Durham (J. B. Nichols & Sons, London), Vol. IV, Pt. I: 1869.

2. John de Kirkby, "The survey of the county of York taken by John de Kirkby, commonly called Kirkby's Inquest," also inquisitions of knights' fees, the Nomina villarum for Yorkshire, and an appendix of illustrative documents, Durham: Pub. for the Society by Andrews and Co., 1867.

3. "Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York," The Surtees Society, London: J. B. Nichols & Son, 1836 (Part I - Vol. 4 of Surtees Society publications), p. 12 will of Peter de la Hay (1345).

Footnotes:

[1] Testamenta Eboracensia A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York, Part 2 (Edinburgh:George Andrews, Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. 30, 1855), 12-13, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[2] Genealogy Medieval, [URL].