Nicholas HUGHES (HEWES) of Newton Kyme [18454]

  General Notes:

Bequeathed to Nicholas by his father 8 May 1549
In George's Will Nicholas Hughes received from his father "two ewes and a little red cob".


Bequeathed to Nicholas by his brother John 11 March 1588-89
. . . the sum of £50 . . . .
. . . Also I do release and forgive unto my brother Nicholas Hewes and to his sonne Anthony my brother Peter Brough and my brother Henry Ford and to every of them all further money and debts as they doe now owe unto me . . . .


THE WILL of Nicholas Hewes of Newton Kymel:
Anno dni 1594 Anno regni Elizabether 36th
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Nicholas Hue of Newton Kyme within the County of Yorke husbandman beinge in perfect remembrance Do make this my last will and testament in manner and forme following First I bequeathe my soule to almighty god my maker and redeemer and my body to be buried within the church yarde of Newton Kyme aforesaid
First I give and do bequeathe to my sonne Anthony Hue all my righte state tytle and interest in all my leases.
Item I give to Nicholas Hue the sonne of Anthony Hue £20 to be paid when he commes to the age of 21 yeares in the consideration of all his right tytle clayme and interest of a lease bearing date the iij day of December the year of the reign of Queen Eliz.36. And if it so channce that the said Nicholas do decease or dye before he comes to the full age of twenty one years Then I will that Anthony Hue the younger Brother to the said Nicholas Hue use thereof and George Hue and John Hue to have the remainder which is £15.
Item I give to Anthony Hue the son of my sonne Anthony £5 and to be paid two yeares after the day of my death and to be paid to the use and profitt of the said Anthony
Item I give to Agnes Hue the daughter of my sonne Anthony the cup boarde in the house with nine pauther dublers 2 candlestickes and one chaffendish with one great chest
Item I give to every poore man within the towne one pecke of wheate or rye to be delivered to them about the feast of St Martyn in winter
Item I give to the repairinge of the church iijs. iiijd. the residue of my goodes not given or bequeathed my funerall debts and legacies discharged
I give and bequeath to Anthony Hue my son whom I make the onely executor of this my last will and testament beinge made and finished the 26th Day of May in the presence of Oswalde Chamber clerke parson there Thomas Cawoode and Robert Wylye I do also appoint the said Oswalde Chamber and Thomas Cawoode to be the overseers of this my last will and in consideration thereof either of them to have 6s.8d. per me
Oswald Chamber clericus
Robert Wylie
Thomas Cawood

Probate was granted to Anthony Hue 3rd December 1594.

John Chester Hughes Chapter 1 Pg 10
GLOSSARY NOTES ON THE WILL OF NICHOLAS HEWES, 1594
I am indebted to Professor M.N.Barley's book, The English Farmhouse and Cottage, for enlightenment on the first two of the following notes.
PEUTHER DUBLERS - pewter dishes. Barley quotes the Inventory of Alice Squires of Branham, Yorkshire (which is about three miles south west of Newton Kyme ). It contains the Item "3 pewther Dublers". Earlier in the text of the book Barley cites from Derbyshire entries "Thomas Spendlove of Wirksworth was perhaps a poor husbandman .... in the house there was a little board or table, and five wooden doublers from which the family ate; ..." Then in a later paragraph, "Thomas Stone of Kirksworth his only mark of superiority over Thomas Spendlove, his neighbour, was that he could put four pewter dishes on the table, instead of wooden doublers."

IN THE HOUSE - the hall, or main living room. Concerning the description Barley states, "Here in the East Midlands we meet for the first time the practice of calling the hall, or main living room, the house. It is not merely an archaism; it reflects real historical differences in housing development, and in particular the fact that the one-roomed house must still have been common in Mid-Tudor Linconshire. In the 1550s, two thirds or more of the inventories fail to mention any rooms; by 1572, the proportion falls to one third, and thenceforward it steadily diminishes until by the end of the seventeenth century one does not expect to encounter such uninformative documents at all."

CHAFFENDISH - chafing dish. Middle English, chaufen, to warm. A vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table. Florence B.Jack in her book, Cookery for every Household, remarks how the modern form of chafing dish (she wrote in 1914) had become very popular, when it had been re-introduced from America. She reminds us, however, "This is really one of the earliest methods of cooking, a form of chafing dish having been used when much simpler dishes were expected than in the present day."

Nicholas married Lavinia [18461] [MRIN: 6788].