“To Lancelot Turner, my son, all my lands in possession and reversion, except a tenement and garthinge in Stanegate, to him and his heirs males; with remainder to Phillippe Turner, my son, and his heirs males; with remainder to Thomas Turner, my son, and his heirs males; with remainder to Martyn Turner, my son, and his heirs males; with remainder to my own right heirs.”
The following bequests show that the testator’s personalty was of a costly description:—
“To my son, Lancelot Turner, my dolphyn of gold; to my wife, all such gold rings and gold tablets as she hath in possession; to Phillipp Turner, my son, my ring hoop of gold; to Thomas Turner, a ring of gold, with a graven death’s head in it, weighing about 40s.; to Martyn Turner, a gold ring, with a death’s head of stone in it; to Margaret Willowbie, a round gold ring of 12s. price, which lieth in my study amongst other my rings; to Elizabeth Martyn, a gold ring in a purse, in my far study; to Katherine Turner, a ring of an angel weight; to Margaret Willowbie, 100 marks in consideration of such reckoning as is between her and me; to Elizabeth Martin, £10 over and beside £6. 13s. 4d. which I owe of the 100 marks that I promised to her husband for her marriage goods; to Katherine Turner, £30 over and besides her child’s portion; to Johan Willowbie, 40s., and to Anne, Elizabeth, and Thomas Willowbie, 20s. each; to my wife, the tithes of corn and hay at Bishopthorpe during her life; to Martyn Turner, my youngest son, twenty marks yearly, out of the annuity of £20 granted unto me from William Chamberlayne, Esq., and Leonard his son,[13] for his bringing up at the University, and I commit him to the tuition of my wife, to be ruled and ordered by her, who I trust will be his good mother, and see all his things ordered for his most benefit; to my son, Lancelot, my years in the tithe of Braken-on-the-Wold, by grant from the Queen’s Majesty; to Thomas Turner, the tenement and garthing in Stanegate; to my son, Philip Turner, my years in my lands in Clifton which I have by grant from the Queen, and my right in the Howe close without Walmgate Bar; to my well-beloved cousin, Mr. Henry Maye, the moiety of my leasehold lands in Kexbie township, for that he in truth did disburse the one half of the money for the obtaining of the leases—the other moiety I give to my children, Edward, Martyn, and Katherine Turner; to my daughter, Margaret Willowbie, my years in a close in Scoreby, paying out of it to my sister, Alice Hall, widow, 40s. yearly; to Lancelot Martin, my son-in-law, a gold ring of the value of 40s. I will that all the ‘waynescott, sealings, portalles, binkes, cundetts for conveying of water,’ &c. in my now dwelling-house, and within the house of the Lady Beckwith, be heirlooms. To my wife, a stoke of corn which I estimate to be twenty quarters of barley; £30 from one Hunter, for the fine or gressam of a tenement and lands of my said wife in Tockwith; and a grey ambling nag which she useth to ride upon, and calleth her own nag, which I esteem at the value of £4. To the right worshipful and my singular good mistress, Mrs. Eymis,[14] one old ryal; to my good friend Mr. Thomas Sandes, my cousin Henry Maye, and his wife, an old angel each; to my cousin Thomas Jackson, and my niece Jane Crosethwaite, each a French crown; to each of the children of my late brother-in-law, John Hall, 5s.; to Edmund Fale and his wife, 5s. each; to Mrs. Maltus, an English crown; to Mrs. Wood, of Kilnwick, a gold ring, or two old angels; to Agnes Walker, of Saint Nicholas, 3s. 4d. The residue to my wife, and Lancelot Turner, Margaret Willowbie, and Elizabeth Martin, my children, whom I make executors; my very good friend, Mr. Thomas Wood of Kilnwicke,[15] Robert Man, Thomas Blenkharne, John Stephenson, and Thomas Smithson, supervisors.”
It does not appear that the testator’s wife, who survived him, had borne him any children. By the aid of his will the issue of his previous marriage may be placed in the following order:—
1. Lancelot, the eldest son. For copious information respecting him, we are indebted to your researches.
2. Philip, the grandfather of Edith Pope.
3. Thomas. In the year 1580, “Thomas Turner, goldsmith, son of Edward Turner, gentleman,” was admitted to the city franchise.
4. Margaret, married, in her father’s lifetime, to a person of the name of Willowbie. After his death she married John Stephenson,[16] one of the supervisors of her father’s will.
5. Elizabeth, married to Lancelot Martin at the Church of Saint Helen Stonegate, on the 17th of July, 1580. Thomas Martin, the London apprentice, to whom Lancelot Turner gives a legacy of £200, was their son. It appears from the will of Lancelot Turner, that she was afterwards the wife of a person named Hustler.
6. Katharine, a minor at the time of her father’s death. She afterwards married Thomas Blenkarne, another of the supervisors of his will.