Kent Ulcombe church - to be buried within the priory of Ledes
"Here lieth William Maidston, esquire, who died 8 April , . . 1419"
Sir William Maydeston 1419 -brass from Leeds Priory nearby (?)
It seems by his will he left no issue, .
In his will of 5 April 1419 he asked to "be buried in the chapel of St. Stephen within the Priory of Ledes To the said priory a vestment with the whole belongings together with 5 copes of black velvet and with ‘orfreyes’ of "panno auro texto" with a silver vessel called ‘holiwaterstop’ a ‘holiwat-erstykke’ of silver, a ‘paxbreed’ of silver and with one silver of silver to beheld according to the form John Martyn and other my executors if they do not agree then as directed by John Martyn. I leave an ‘Onche’ of gold with a certain Image of a Virgin (imagine virginea) fixed in the same to the House of St. Katherine by the Tower of London there to be offered above (supra) the image of St. Katherine.
To John Clyne my Kinsman the 100s. he owes me and another 120s. to his son my godson.
To John Huchyn 20s. and 40s. he owes.
To each Canon of the Priory of Ledes 12d.
Executors John Martyn and Ann his wife, Roger Rye, John Maydeston Canon of Ledes and Thomas Palmer" who proved the will 1 June 1419 .
There followed a court case re the disposal of a chest and forcer (strong-box) belonging to JM, RR, and TP, from which William Mymmes and others seized and carried off goods and chattels to the value of 1200m. JM, RR, and TP say that the chest and forcer were broken into in: the parish of St Mary Woolnoth, Langbourn Ward; and the parish of St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, Castle Baynard Ward - the defendants stated that long before day of the supposed trespass William Maydeston had delivered the said chest and forcer to the others for safe keeping within their living house ...." www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/common-pleas/1399-150...
Perhaps squire to Constance Despenser, Countess of Gloucester archive.org/stream/constitutionalhi03stubuoft/constitutio... to fight in his ladies quarrell.] One of hir esquiers named William Maidstone, hearing what answer his ladie and mistresse propounded, cast downe his hood, and proffered in hir cause the combat. The duke likewise cast downe his hood, readie by battell to cleare his innocencie. But yet the kings sonne lord Thomas of Lancaster arrested him, and put him vnder safe keping ...
— Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) - Henrie IV • Raphael Holinshed books.google.co.uk/books?id=0hs2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT401&...
Kent Ulcombe church - to be buried within the priory of Ledes
"Here lieth William Maidston, esquire, who died 8 April , . . 1419"
Sir William Maydeston 1419 -brass from Leeds Priory nearby (?)
It seems by his will he left no issue, .
In his will of 5 April 1419 he asked to "be buried in the chapel of St. Stephen within the Priory of Ledes To the said priory a vestment with the whole belongings together with 5 copes of black velvet and with ‘orfreyes’ of "panno auro texto" with a silver vessel called ‘holiwaterstop’ a ‘holiwat-erstykke’ of silver, a ‘paxbreed’ of silver and with one silver of silver to beheld according to the form John Martyn and other my executors if they do not agree then as directed by John Martyn. I leave an ‘Onche’ of gold with a certain Image of a Virgin (imagine virginea) fixed in the same to the House of St. Katherine by the Tower of London there to be offered above (supra) the image of St. Katherine.
To John Clyne my Kinsman the 100s. he owes me and another 120s. to his son my godson.
To John Huchyn 20s. and 40s. he owes.
To each Canon of the Priory of Ledes 12d.
Executors John Martyn and Ann his wife, Roger Rye, John Maydeston Canon of Ledes and Thomas Palmer" who proved the will 1 June 1419 .
There followed a court case re the disposal of a chest and forcer (strong-box) belonging to JM, RR, and TP, from which William Mymmes and others seized and carried off goods and chattels to the value of 1200m. JM, RR, and TP say that the chest and forcer were broken into in: the parish of St Mary Woolnoth, Langbourn Ward; and the parish of St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, Castle Baynard Ward - the defendants stated that long before day of the supposed trespass William Maydeston had delivered the said chest and forcer to the others for safe keeping within their living house ...." www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/common-pleas/1399-150...
Perhaps squire to Constance Despenser, Countess of Gloucester archive.org/stream/constitutionalhi03stubuoft/constitutio... to fight in his ladies quarrell.] One of hir esquiers named William Maidstone, hearing what answer his ladie and mistresse propounded, cast downe his hood, and proffered in hir cause the combat. The duke likewise cast downe his hood, readie by battell to cleare his innocencie. But yet the kings sonne lord Thomas of Lancaster arrested him, and put him vnder safe keping ...
— Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) - Henrie IV • Raphael Holinshed books.google.co.uk/books?id=0hs2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT401&...