Catalogue description Will of Richard Dodmore of Ludlow, draper

His body to be buried in St. Lawrence's Ludlow near to the monument of Elizabeth his late wife.

To the Rector of St. Lawrence's: 6/8d for tithes and oblations 'forgotten, neglected of ill-paid or kept back.'

To his wife Elizabeth:£20, his 2 best girdles of silk ornamented and decorated with silver, and gold which he had put towards her marriage portion, three drinking vessels of silver and one small bowl ornamented in silver gilt; three tunics and 'optimum lectum meum de plumis vulgariter dictum a federbed'; his best bed together with half the furniture and utensils of his home.

To his only son William: £30, 6 silver drinking vessels and one small basin of silver bound round the rim with silver gilt; 3 tunics; best mattress together with the other half of the furniture and utensils. All of which to remain in the custody of the executoes till his son is of age.

If his son dies before he is of age all left to him is to go to Richard Dodmore's sisters Alice and Matilda except the £30 which is to be spent by the executors in masses and alms and other pious uses for the safety of his soul.

To his brother Walter Dodmore: His best gown of 'nanguyn in grayne' with fur hood and his new tippet of Sarsynet

To John Aleyn: his gown of 'Viollet in grayne' and his velvet tippet. and 'caleptiam vulgariter dictam an hatte'

To William Whitton: his sword and crossbow

To Edward Clay: his long black furred gown

To his two orphan nephews, sons of his brother John Dodmore:his linen gown to make gowns for them.

To Johanna Morton mother of Elizabeth his late wife: his girdle of silk ornamented with silver gilt.

To Anne Aleyn: his girdle of white silk ornamented with silver

To Richard Shepherd, chaplain, curate of St. Lawrence his long furred gown of russet and one pair of new shoes.

To Roger Swayn his new gown of green and his new shoes of 'plonket' and 3/4d.

To his servant John: his short black gown and 3/4d.

To his servant 'Golce(?) 2/- beyond her wages.

To Joyce Morton: his long gowne of green for a 'trippyng gowne'

To Alice his sons nurse: 3/4d over and above her wages

To Margery Foster: 20d.

To Emote Dillowe: 12d.

He leaves for the installing of a suitable chaplain to pray for his soul for two years from the day of his death at the altar of St. Margaret's Clee, or elsewhere as his executors think fit, £10

He wills that on the day of his death six torches of wax of a weight above 141b. be used for giving light round his body after death and be kept burning until his burial by 3 men and 3 women waering black gowns of linen. And one of the candlesticks is to go to the chapel of St. Margaret de la Clee(vulgarly called Saint Margarettcee) and another to the chapel of St. Catherine on the bridge of Ludlow towards Ludford.

And he wills that on the day of his funeral 5 wax candles of ¾lb. be burned during the vigil over his grave. If any of his goods are not mentioned in the will he leaves them to his mother Johanna Aleyn and to Walter Morton to be disposed of as they think fit.

He makes the said John na and Walter his executors with 15/- to Johann and 20/- to Walter for their pains. And he makes Richard Chesman overseer of the will with 10/- for his pains.

Witnesses: Richard Shepherd, John Aleyn, Hugh Clay and others.

Dat. Ludlow

Latin, no sig. or seal

Endorsed :Probate, 10th Oct. 1487 by the Commissary general of Thomas, bishop (of Hereford) (Parchment torn.)