Catalogue description Will [unsealed] of John Benfeld, son of John Benfeld of Twineham.

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Details of WISTON/5025
Reference: WISTON/5025
Title: Will [unsealed] of John Benfeld, son of John Benfeld of Twineham.
Description:

Directs that he should be buried on the N. side of the chancel in the church of the Carmelites at New Shoreham, and bequeaths 40s. for the paving of the said chancel with stone; legacies to friars praying for him there and at Lewes, Arundel and Chichester, and for the maintenance 'of the mother church' of Chichester and to churches at Twineham, Waldron and Hangleton; legacies of household goods to Richard and Agnes Benfeld, brother and wife respectively of testator.

 

Executors: Robert Shorter, clerk, Richard Jay.

 

Given at Southwark [co. Surrey].

 

Witnesses: Richard Crowner, rector of Broadwater, Richard Benfeld, Thomas Skryvenar.
Date: 11 June 1434
Held by: West Sussex Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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