The Will of John Kellet, barber-surgeon of London, in English; dated 30 August 1537; proved 24 April 1540

single-sheet document, 185x255mm, vellum, 18 lines, a further 30mm folded up and slit for a seal-tag, with two vertical and three horizontal creases, endorsed with 11 lines in Latin and traces of a red wax seal

‘In the name of God amen the xxx day of August in the yere of our lorde god MCCCCCxxxvij and the xxix yere of the reigne of king Henry the VIIIth, I John Kellet Citezen and Barbour surgean of London being hooll of mynde … in witnesse wherof to this my present testament I have set my seale the day and yere above wrytten’; endorsed with the proving of the will in 1540.

Kellet, of the parish of St Ewen, Newgate, asks to be buried in the Greyfriars church, London; that his property should go to his wife and then to his daughters; and that his brother-in-law should receive his ‘gowne furred with conye’ (i.e. rabbit). Sold with a full transcription and detailed analysis.