Item 4 - Copy of the will of Roger Le Straunge

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GC/BUR/D/III/4

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GB 2198 GC/BUR/D/III/4

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Copy of the will of Roger Le Straunge

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  • c. 1506 (Creation)

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1 document Manuscript Paper

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Knight.

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Includes provision for the jointure 0f his wife Anne le Straunger, his main feofs to his son John - and others, including his brother Roiberrt, who is to pay £7 to the church of Hunstanton for repair and ornament; £40 to support a priest in Gonville Hall in Cambridge 'for his exhibition' there 'to learn and sing for me and my friends for 6 years'. Also several gifts to the friars of Lynn and elsewhere, and other churches - and 3 more pages of detailed provisions. His brother John le Straunge and others are appointed executors.

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      This gift is recorded in the College's commemoration of benefactors (See Biographical History Volume III, p.285).

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      (The date has been omitted from this copy of the will: according to Venn Roger died 27 October 1506 (Biographical History, Volume II, p.285).)

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