children of my late aunte who dwelt in or neer Walding-
feild, in Essex, | the some of three pounds : Item, I give unto my cosen, Jeremy Huske, unto my cosins, Anne Beckett and Elizabeth Beckett, to every of them fourtie shillings : Item, I give mito the poore of the said towne of Thurston twentie shillings : Item, I give unto such of my poore kindred as are now dwelling at Stowlangton, § in Suffolke, or elsewhere, whoe are now knowne to my executors, fourtie shillings, to be disposed according to the discretion of my executors : Item, I give unto James Joyner of London, whoe hath beene very faithfuU in his service unto me tenn pounds ; and to my loveing frends, Mr Dermer, haberdasher, dwelling on Ludgate Hill, twenty shillings, and to his wife twentie shillings, and to Widdow Dermer twentie shilUngs ; and to my good friends Goodman Pin- kaur and Goodman Rocke, dwelling in Perpoole Lane, to each of them twenty shillings : Item, I give unto Mr Nicholas Parry, steward of Grayes Inne, three pounds ; and to Mr Guy, cheife cooke there, a ring of tenn shillings ; and to his under servants, to be disposed at his discretion, the some of twenty shillings in the whole : Item, I give unto the three cheife butlers of Gr;iyes Inne, to eveiy of them, twenty shillings ; alsoe, I give unto the inferiour servants of that house twenty shillings, to be disposed of ac- cording to the discretion of the steward ; and as for that Hono^'® Society of Grayes Inne, I have nothing to bequeath unto it but the prayers of a sicke and dyeing man, that it may continue to be still a semenary of worthy men,
* See B in Appendix to this Memoir, f Ibid.
% Thig h a slip. It is in Suffolk, near Sudbury, on borders of Essex.
g Stowlangtoft, three miles from Thurston.
MEMOIR OF RICHARD SIBBES, D.D. CXXIX
whoe may be alwayes ready to maintaine religion and justice, w*'' humble tliankes for all their kindnesse and loveing respects towardes mee : Item, I give unto my auncient and deare frend, ould Mr Mew, in remembrance or* my love, one of Mr Downham's books, called a Direccon to a Christian Life ;=■'- and to my deare and very worthy frend, Mr John Pym, f a ring ol fourtie shillings : Item, I give unto my very good frend, Mr William Mew, one silver spoone, now in the custody of James Joyner aforenamed : Item, I give unto the poore of the parrish where I shal be buried twenty shillings : Item, I give unto my very worthy, religious, and bountifall frend, Mrs Maiy Moore,! as a poore remembrance of my harty love unto her, one lyng of fourtie shillings ; and to my very worthy frends S'' Robert Brooke of Langly, to his lady,§ and to his brother, Mr John Brooke, to each of them a ring of fourtie shiUings ; and to my kind frend, Mr Stevens of Gloucester- shire, aringii oftwentie shiUings ; and to my worthy friend, Mr Capell,ir late preacher in Gloucestershire, twenty shiUings : Item, I give five pounds to the poore of the p'ishes of Trinity and St Andrews, in Cambridge : Item, Whereas there is due unto me, from the CoUedge of St Katherine, in Cam- bridge, one hundred pounds, for w"** Mr Goodwyn and Mr Arrow Smith** stand bound to mee, haveing the seale of the said coUedge for their securetie, I doe hereby give and bequeath unto the said coUedge, for ever, the said some of one hundred pounds, for the setling of a scholarship of fower pounds p. ann. ; to w"'"' said schoUership my will and desire is, that my kinsman, John Sibbs, aforemenconed, shal be first elected and admitted ; and that in all future eleccons, when the same shal be void in tyme to come, yf any of my kindred shal be then students in the said coUedge, the p'son soe of kynne to me shal be p''ferred before another : Item, I give unto my loveing frend, Mr Catline, preacher of Thurston, fourtie shillings : Item, I give unto my good frend, Mr Almond of Cambridge, fyve pounds, praying him to im- ploy the same for the benefit of his sonne and my godsonne : Item, I give mito my godsonne, Richard Clerk, fortie shillings ; and whereas, by the will of Mrs Gardiner, late of London, widdow, deceased, I was desired to dispose a certain some of money, in such manner as in her said will is spe- cified, all w"^ money hath beene accordingly disposed, excepting only fyve pounds, payable unto Mr Sjonons of Katherine Hall, my wiU therefore is that payment be made of the said fyve pounds unto Mr Symonds afore- said ; and to my reverend frende, Dr Gouge, I doe give, as a testimony of my love, twenty shillings, desiring him to take the papies to preach my funerall sermon iff Item, My will is, that my reverend frend, Mr Downeham, shall have two of those bookes of his owne making backe againe w'^'' were by him delivered unto me, and are remayning in my studie at Grayes Inne ; all the rest of my goods and chatties, my funerall, debts, and legacies being payed and discharged, I give unto my brother and kinsman before named — that is to sale, to my brother Thomas Sibbs, and my nephew John Sibbs, formerly menconed, whome, together w*'' John Godbold of Grayes Inne,