The Levisham burials and births appear in the
Pickering registers. Among the regular entries of deaths at Pickering are
recorded:--
"1619. Jane Greenwood a stranger buried March.
1631. Ellen Kirbye a poore Girle buried.
1634. A poor traveller buried here the 3 day of
June.
1636. Gawen Pollard pauper Generosus 30th
May."
It would be interesting to know how a pauper came to be a "generosus."
A bequest dated 1658 that seems to have been entirely forgotten appears in
one of the registers. It says: "Be it Remembred that Robert Huggett of
great Edston In the County of yourke Labourer did by his last will and
Testamente bearinge date the Eleaventh day of January in the yeare of
Grace one Thousande Sixe hundred fifty Eight give & bequeste unto
Elizabeth Huggett his Mother in Law all that his Cottage or Tennemente att
Pickeringe with all & singular the Appurtenances theirunto belongeing
duringe hir life Naturall and No longer and then to Come unto James Coates
of little Barugh Husbandman all the Right & Title of the above saide
Tennemente in Pickeringe aforsaide after the death of my saide Mother in
Law Hee payinge theirfor year by & every yeare for Ever the some of Twelve
shilling of Lawfull money of Englande to be paide unto the Poore of
Pickeringe att the feaste of Sainte Martin the bishopp in winter to begine
the firste paymente at Martinmas after the death of my saide Mother in Law
& not before which Twelve shilling shall be distributede at the discretion
of the saide James Coats or his assignes Togeather with the advice of the
Church wardins & overseers of the saide towne of Pickeringe for the time
beinge.
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