HEALD

(aka - Healde etc )

Richard Healde, yeoman of Elton, 1593/94

Will dated 20/9/1593 mentions:

• To be buried in the church at Elton
• "Alice my wife shall have and enjoy the one moytie or halfe parte of fearme or Tenement in Elton which I hould of that right worshippfull Mr Godferey Foljambe Esquire"
• other half of moiety "to Roger Wheeldon als Healde my servannt man"
• "to Johane Butlar my wifes daughter eight poundes, And to Elizabeth the wyfe of Edwarde [Glive^*] fortie shillings, which Richard Butlar of Hartehill there brother doth nowe owe unto me"
• 10s towards repairs of Elton chapel
• 5s towards "the mendinge of the heighewayes within our libertie of Elton"
• "a sheep to every one of his godchildren"
• "ordaine and make my brother Robert healde of the hill the sole executor ... And I require my very good Freindes .. Johnn Tunstidd gent and George Longden of Wormhill yeoman to be supervisors"
• Witnesses: George Longden, Richard Failes Henry Hotchkinson and Nicholas Whelden