Extract from the will of Henry Parker. John Chertesey, late citizen and clothier...

Extract from the will of Henry Parker. John Chertesey, late citizen and clothier of London, demised to Richard Wyllesden, citizen and chandler, for a certain term, lands, tenements, and shops, and the quay adjoining called 'Asselyneswharf,' in St. Dunstan's parish by the Tower, paying the said John 12/. yearly and by his will (enrolled in the Husting, 21 Richard II. ) bequeathed to his son William that rent and the reversion of the premises after the said term, to hold for the lives of Beatrice, wife of Roger Wolverston, and the wife of John Nowers, after whose decease the rent and reversion of the premises should reamin to Isabella, wife of the aforesaid John Cherteseye, so long as she remained unmarried; or if she married, then to the said William, John's son, for his life. The said Beatrice and the wife of Nowers died, and Isabella married Richard Spice; and thereafter John Chertesey, son and heir of John Chertesey aforesaid, by his writing enrolled in the Husting Monday after St. Edmund, King and Martyr, 8 Henry IV., granted that the rent of 12/. which, after the death of William his brother would revert to him, and all the premises, which would revert to him after William's Cressewyk, John Wakefield, John Weryng, John Ryder - now all dead- and Henry Parker aforesaid. Parker therefore bequeaths to the prior and convent of Holy Trinity, called Christchurch, within Algate, London, the said rent of 12/., and the reversion of the lands, etc, after the completion of Wyllesden's term. (Middx. ). (Henry IV. )

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