[96.3] Court of Rome.
[97.1] Deceive.
[97.2] The first week in Clean Lent means the first entire week in Lent beginning on a Sunday.
[85]
NUNCUPATIVE WILL OF EDMUND PASTON[98.1]
1449
MARCH 21
Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos præsens scriptum pervenerit, Nos, Willelmus May, Magister Novi Templi, London’, Johannes Bakton gentilman, Thomas Parker, civis et cissor Londoni, et Johannes Osbern, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Sciatis quod xxj. die Martij Anno Domini mccccxlviij.[98.2] Edmundus Paston de comitatu Norff., armiger, in bona memoria ac sana mente existens, languens in extremis, in nostra præsentia, condidit et declaravit testamentum suum nuncupativum in hunc modum:—In primis, legavit animam suam Deo Omnipotenti, Beatæ Mariæ Virgini et omnibus Sanctis, corpusque suum ad sepeliendum in ecclesia Templi prædicti, sive in ecclesia Fratrum Carmelitarum London’ [ad electionem sui confessoris[98.3]]. Item dictus Edmundus, pro eo quod noluit circa bona sive negocia temporalia mentem sive animam suam affligere seu occupare, set ad æternam felicitatem se præparare, dedit, legavit ac commisit omnia bona et catalla sua prædilecto fratri suo Johanni Paston, ex magna confidencia in ipso habita ut ea disponeret pro bono animæ suæ, prout melius videret Deo placere ac animæ suæ prodesse. Et dictum Johannem Paston ordinavit et constituit executorem suum. In cujus rei testimonum præsentibus sigilla nostra apposuimus.
Endorsed—Copia ultimæ voluntatis Edmundi Paston.
Endorsed in a later hand—Testamentum Edmundi Paston secundi filii Willelmi Paston Justiciarii.
[98.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.]
[98.2] This is 1449 according to the modern computation, which begins the year on the 1st of January instead of the 25th March.