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English Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of York 1477–1499 To Dr Lesley Boatwright, classicist, palaeographer and touch-typist extraordinaire The will of Isabel Grymston (fol. 165) English Wills proved in the Prerogative court of York 1477–1499 Edited by Heather Falvey Lesley Boatwright Peter Hammond Richard III Society 2013 First published in the United Kingdom by the Richard III Society © The Richard III Society, Heather Falvey, Lesley Boatwright and Peter Hammond, 2013 All rights reserved. Except as permitted by current legislation, no part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright holders. ISBN: 978-0-904893-20-5 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed and bound in the UK by Biddles, part of the MPG Printgroup, Bodmin and King's Lynn CONTENTS Frontispiece: the will of Isabel Grymston (fol. 165) Acknowledgements i Illustrations and tables ii Abbreviations ii Map of medieval York iii Introduction v Glossary xxviii Bibliography xliii Editorial procedures xlvi Testators in this volume xlvii Wills 1 Appendix 1 169 Appendix 2 222 Index of Persons 226 Index of Places 240 Index of Subjects 250 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The original probate register from which these wills are taken is held at the Borthwick Institute at the University of York. We are grateful to the Institute for permission to publish not only the transcripts but also the photograph of the will of Isabel Grymston and to adapt the beginning of the will of Dame Alice Nevile for the dust jacket.
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