Description | Executor: Christopher Dawnay, nephwe Date of probate: 4 August 1642 Bequests: to be buried at Snaith church; to the poor of Snaith, £20; to the poor of Sessay and of the towns of Dalton, Elmer [Pilmoor?], Crakehills and Thirkleby, £20; to daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Dawnay, 40 shillings in gold for a remembrance ring and to her daughter, Faith Yarburgh [Yerburghe], 20 shillings in gold; to each of daughter Acklam's children, 20 shillings in gold and to every one of Vaughan's children, 20 shillings in gold; to niece, Elizabeth Stanehouse, £20; nephew, John Dawnay, messuage at Selby and a licence to sell wine there and to the brother, Thomas Dawnay of London, £10; to servant, Robert Pinkney for the term of his life the tenements which he holds in Sessay; to servant, John Webster, house and garth in Sessay and to the heir, lands in Dalton and Terrington; to servant, George Wetherall, 20 shillings and his brother's farm at Sessay; to all servants one year's wage; to nephew, Thomas Acklam, lands at Goole and his burgage of the city of York in Walmergate; to godson, Thomas Rudston, son of Margaret Rudston, lands in Goole purchased from Sir Robert Amstrother with profits from college lands to bring up Thomas Rudston in a fit manner; and to Thomas Rudston the lease of lands of the college there; to John Dawnay lands at Camelford and Carlton; to John Dawnay (other nephew) lands at Byreford known as Skurse or Skurse Hall or Drape; to friends, John Legard of Gaunton and Walter Rudston lands in [Linerton] and Crakehill, Dalton, Bawlke Hutton, Woodhouse in [Ayremme], Terrington and with further bequests concerning land at Kippin Witnesses: William Webb, J Ledgard, J Dawnay, Ralph Dawnay, Thomas Howard, J B[urgon] and William Clarkson |