Chancery Depositions (PRO C1 559/36 Robt Parker v Hen Parker)

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to the most reverend father in god Thos lord legate cardinal of York and chancellor of England humbly showeth unto your lordship your daily orator Robt Parker of London that where of Robt Parker father to your said orator was seised of and in lands and tenements set lying and within the Earls Colne# of the yearly value of 50li and possessed of goods and chattels to the value of 500li and so being seised and possessed of the same lands and tenements enfeoffed to certain persons to the use of the said Robt the father and his heirs for the performance of his testament and last will and after made his testament and last will and in the same ordained and made one Jn Parker his son and heir his executor and by the same testament willed and bequeathed unto your said orator certain of the said lands and tenements and certain of the said goods and chattels the certainty whereof unto your said orator is unknown for as much as your said orator at the time of the making of the said testament was within age that is to say of the age of 12yrs or thereabout and afterwards the said Robt Parker father to your said orator died after whose death the use of the same lands and tenements descended unto the said Jn Parker as son and heir to the said Robt and all the said goods and chattels came to the hands of the said Jn as executor to the said Robt the father and after your said beseecher divers times required the said Jn Parker the executor to the said Robt the father to yield unto your said suppliant such bequest as to him was made by the testament of the said Robt his father but that to do he always refused and after the said Jn Parker made his testament and last will and by the same ordained and made one Hen Parker his brother his executor and died seised of the use of all the said lands and tenements and possessed of all the said goods and chattels that were the said Robt Parker his father without issue of his body begotten after whose death the use of all the said lands and tenements descended to the said Hen Parker as brother and heir to the said Jn Parker and all the goods and chattels came to the possession of the said Hen Parker as executor of the said Jn the which Jn by his said testament bequeathed certain goods and chattels and certain of the said lands and tenements unto your said suppliant the certainty whereof unto your said orator is unknown for as much as your said orator divers times the same Hen after the death of the same Jn Parker to show unto your said orator as well the testament of the said Robt Parker the father as the testament of the said Jn Parker and also to yield unto your said suppliant such bequests as was bequeathed unto your said orator in every of the said testaments that to do the said Hen hath always refused and yet doth refuse against reason and good conscience in tender consideration whereof may it please your gracious lordship to grant a writ of subpoena directed to the said Hen and commanding him the same to appear afore the kings sovereign lord in his court of chancery at an certain day and under a certain pain by your grace to be limited to answer to the premises and further to abide as by your gracious lordship shall be awarded and your said orator shall ever pray for the prosperity of your gracious lordship long to endure Edw Dynoke