Genealogy
Will of John Tyas
John Tyas, parson of Treeton & vicar of Ecclesfield, will dated 30 May, 1580.
To be buried in Ecclesfield churchyard . . ." I fynde in Gods laws & his holy worde that bona tccletia sunt... bona pauperum (Aug.) a prelate may not bequeath or give the Church goods to his cosinges or kinsfolkes, quia Moiei .....sive ordinare.
To Burton parish Penistone Sheffield ... and one mattress coverlet blanket etc. and one alms bed for old sick sore & lame people to lie in at the Vicar's discretion.
To Glossop xi. Cawthorne xs. Wentworth x. Tankersley xs. Rotherham xx<. Rawmarsh xs. Whiston x<. Langton xi. Aston xt. Beighton xs. Handeworth x:
My funeralls and debts to be taken of my whole goods, my debts to be given to my executors, then all my goods to be divided into 3 parts :
the first to myself
the second to my household servants
men & women boys scholars with other poor persons such as shall be nominated in a bill (not found) indented
subscribed with my own hand to be annexed to this will, whereof one part remaineth in the custody of my said
servants the other in the custody of my executors,
and the third part thereof to the poor people of my 3 parishes.
Item I freelye give and bequeath to the right honourable my very good Lord and maister the best yoke of oxen that God hath lente me such as his good Lordshippe shall lyke best, and I doe heare most tenderly besech his great and superabundant honor for the deare love of Almighty God, godly to consider the great misery & poverty of those pore parishes and parsons herein expressed,
To every of my Godchildren xijd.-
To Francis Barnby 80s.
To my 8 parish priests
8 good cloaks or gownes
To Sir Thomas Colly
Mr. Ralph Roger
Sir Robert Tinmonth alias
Steele
8 cloaks or cassocks
To my 8 parish clerks 8s.4 each
To Edward Pavy 20/.
To the mending of Highway
in my 8 parishes
20s.
To Mr. Mauleverer one velvet hat
To Mr. Edward More of Barnborough my dagger that my
Lord Darcy gave me
To Christopher Hayford 20s.
To John Prankish 20s.
To everyone of my brethren and sisters
children 8s4.
To Mr. Atkinson 20s. for his pains with George Tyas.
To the same George Tyas 30s
To George Tyas of Barnby Hall all my books.
To William Chappell and Margaret Shaw 3 stone of wool A the price of 9
quarters of wheat or rye, all such swine or pullayne
as are at the Vicarage & 2 kine to help them.
To my
brother John's wife 3 Metts of wheat.
To John Tyas wife of Thoxlee a flanders bed cover with image A
my feather bed at Ecclesfield.
To Peter Morton my coffer at Steyrehead with lock & key for his knives.
To the poor cottages of Treeton all my wood and coals within my folds.
To the poor people of Ecclesfield in Bradfield one
annuity or annual rent of 28s. to be yearly for over taken out of one messuage or one oxgang and a half of land
at Thurnscoe to the use of the poor, blind, old, lame, and impotent people of the said parishes and to none other use.
Proved at York, 17 Nov. 1580.