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ALICE widow of JOHN ALDAY
28 October 1496. Buried in the churchyard
of Wingham on the south side, beside Thomas Busch sometime my
husband. To the church of Wingham a gilt cup with a cover, which
cup my brother John Billes hath in his keeping, that the value of
the cup should make a chalice for the church of Wingham. To the
church of Ash the value of the same cup to make a chalice.
John Roger, goldsmith, dwelling in London, have two pairs of
sheets. My sister Billes a pair of coral beads gauded with silver
gilt, also two pairs of sheets. Residue to my ex’ors, John
Saunder, vicar of Ash, and Master Walter Shirborne, chantry priest
of Ash. Feoffees: William Berton of Ickham and Sir Stephen
Reynolds of Bekesbourne. My manor called Twitham with arable land,
pasture, etc., in Wingham and Goodneston, which my father John
Billes* gave me, to my feoffees for a chantry† Wingham, but if
not sufficient for that purpose to be sold and the money to the
churches of Wingham and Ash, in rnasses and other ornaments of the
church, and chartable deeds.
[No probate date.] (W, fol 7)
NICHOLAS ALDAY
19 Dec. 1520. Buried in the churchyard under the yewe
tree and under my father’s stone. High altar 3s. 4d. ; of Our
Lady church in Dover 20d. ; of Deal 20d. To the
Light of St. Mary in Ash church 12d. ; to the reparation of
the church 3s. 4d ; and the repair of bad roads between Ash and
Sandwich 20s. A priest sing for me for half a year and have
£3 6s. 8d. Wife have all things she had before our
espowsage, also four horses at Ash—a gray,
black ballyd,‡ sorell ballyd and a black with a cut tail—and
four kine at Dover, and 50 ewes at the next Feast of St. John
Baptist and 10s. for their ferme. Wife have all my corn at Dover
and her wedding
* John Billes was of Wingham and died
in 1475 desiring to be buried in the church of St. Peter in
Stowmarket, Suffolk. His lands in Ash, Staple, Wingham,
Wodnesbergh and town of Sandwich to his wife Denis for life, then
the Manor of Twitham to his daughter Alice and her heirs and
assigns. His son , John was young, and to be provided at
school by Denis. (A., fol. 65.)
John Billes the son was of Sandwich, where he
died in 1511 desiring to be buried in the church of Wingham, and
left a wife Grysill. (A., Vol XII, fol 26)
† This Chantry was not founded, and her brother, John Billes of
the parish of St. Mary in Sandwich, evidently bought the manor,
for at his death in 1511 he left "my Manor of
Twitham" to his wife Grysill (A., Vol. XII., fol 26)
‡ This possibly denotes the markings on the horse—e.g.,
pie-bald or skew-bald ; or it might even mean
"white-faced" as in the case of a
"bald-faced" stag.
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