John Barnardiston, Rector of Ketton 1506, and of Great Cotes, 1549, was supervisor to the Will of John Barnardiston of Great Cotes (1549) 1
John Barnardiston had a grant from the Crown "for ever" of the Rectory of Riby, Lincoln, 36 Henry VIII. 1
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The Will of JOHN BARNARDISTON, Gent., of Great Coates. 9 August 1549. To be buried in the church of St. Nicholas.
To Sir Thomas Barnardiston, Knt., of Keddington, Suffolk, 40s. Lady Anne Barnardiston, widow.
To Mr. John Barnardiston, parson of Great Coates, 40s.
I desire them to be good to my wife Jenytt and my daughter Margaret.
To Sir George Cooke, my wife's brother, xs. to pray for me.
To every one of my wife's sons John, Thomas, Richard and George, iijl. vis. viiid. [3 pounds, 6 shillings, 8 pence]
To Dame Elizabeth Cokermouth vis viiid.
To Sir George Wyghtman, curate of Great Coates, vs.
My parsonage of Riby, failing heirs of my daughter Margaret, is to go to Sir Thomas Barnardiston, Knt., and he to pay 40l. to the brother's children of me John Barnardiston; viz. to Alexander Walleron, born at Aylesbury in Bucks, xxl., and to Margaret Walleron xxl.; and to pay to my wife's sons John, Richard, Thomas and George Lacon, 40 marks.
To my wife Jenytt all my lands in Grimsby for life, and then to my daughter Margaret, and failing her heirs, to John Lacon.
I make my wife exr. Sir John Barnardiston, clerk, supervisor, (with others).
Proved 29 Aug 1549. 2
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