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WILL OF HENRY COLLIERHenry's will, mentione among others, his wife Syble, son Robert unmarried daughters Augnes,Isabell, and Elnor, daughters Elyzabeth Bold, Margery Wylles, and Jone Hoghyes and brother John Collyar. The inquisition post mortem of Henry Collyar was taken 18 Aug 1557, giving his date of Death as 11 Apr 1557, and naming as heir his son Robert Collyar, aged 21 and more.
In the name of God Amen, the fourth of Apryle In the Yere of our Lord God one [torn] in the yere thrye and fourth yere of the raygn of our sovereygn Lord and Lady [ illegile and torn] of God Kynge and quene of England France Spayne both Cicelles Jerusalem Ireland [illegible and torn] and of Austryge duke of Myllam/Bourgoney and Brabant/Countes of Aspurge flander/ [torn] of the parysh of Feckenham/beyenge In good and perfect Mynde and remembrnce Do make [Torn] In Manner and forme folowyng/j Fyste I commyt my soule to godes mercye and my body [torn] churches of Feckenham/Fourthermore I do assygne and gyge the tacke or leace on my farme the which [torn] Syble my wyfe and to Robert my sonne/ to have and to inoyne the sayd farme for the hoe terme [torn] In the seyd leace/
Item I gyve and bequeth to Augnes my dowghter-xxl In money/
Item I gyve to Isabell my dowghter xxl yn money/
Item I gyve to Elnor my dowhter xxl In money/ to be delyverd unto the seyd my [Dowghter do dye before the day of their marage/ then hyt ys my wylle that hyr of theyre money so de[c]essyd shal Remayne to syble my wyfe and she to dyspose hty as she shall thynke moste conventyant for the helth of my solle.
Item: I gyve [to] Robert my sonne my beste port and my beatte panne of brase to be delyvered and after the deceasse of Syble my wife.
Item "I gyve to Elyzabeth Bolt my dowghter-iijl in money.
Item " To Maargerty Wylles my dowghter-xi
Item: to Jone Hwgghyes my dowghter-iijl- in money.
Item I gyve to the powerst people of the parryshe of feckenham [torn[
Item to the porest people of the parryshe of Bradeley.vjs- viijd- .
Item to the curater of feckenham-vjs- viijd.
Item "I gyve the Reparacyon of the parryshe churches of feckemham-xxs-. all the which seyd sommes of legaces i wyll shalbve [paid] immedyately after my deth/ The reaste of all my goodes deatts and Cattalls unbequestyd I gyve and bequeth Syble, my wyfe and Robert my sonne, not with standynge all my howsolde stuffe, which is my howse i wyll shall remayne unto Syble my wyfe, so lonnge as she kepys hyr sesfe sole and unmaryed, but and yf she do mary at any tyme [After[ my death, then hyt ys my wyll that the same my howsolde stuffe shalbe equally payd devydyd and gyven [illigible] all my chyldryn.
Item I amake Syble my wyfe and Robert my sonne my leafull and sole Exectours of thy Laste wyll and testament. and John Collyar my brother and Hwgh Lacy the overseears of thys my Laste Wyll [illegible] hytt be brwly and Justely executyd and done.
Wittnesses Walter Grafton, Wylliam Collyar, John Collyar, John Reade.
Wylliam Clarde, Them Wy____[illegible] Prove 22 May 1557
inventory [torn] by John Reade, wylliam Clarde and Hugh Handy. Total value 84p 40.s
Was a gentleman of the House of Commons 1509-1538
High Sheriff of the County of Yorkshire 1535-1540. He joined the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536, but appears to have been pardoned for his share in that outbreak. He acquired the Manors of Bolton Percy and Nun Appleton in 1542 and Bilbrough in 1546. He was buried at Bolton Percy Church. His wife Isabel was of Denton, Askwith, and Bishop Hill and Davy Hill, York. She was made ah heiress by her brother, John Thwaites. Her Mother was daughter and heir of Nicholas Middleton. Isabel was the ward of the Abbess of Nun Appleton. The story of the romance of Sir William and Isabel Thwaites was printed in the Baltimore Sun on 15 Jun 1903 and reads as follows:
"A romance equal to the Scottish ballad of Young Lochinvar twines about his marriage. The young Sir William Fairfax loved and was loved in return by Isabel Thwaits, a beautiful Yorkshire heiress, who was guarded like a rare flower within the walls of a Cisterclan nunnery, on the River Wharge. She was under the care of the Abbess, Anna Langton. The abbess was not slow to preceive the blossoming of love's springtime between her ward and the gallant young knight. Hence she prohibited all meetings between the pair, and the young suitor, finding supplication, diplomacy and even commands from those in high authority unavailing, stormed the nummery in warlike fashion, captured the willing lady of his heart, carried her off in triumph to Bolton Percy Church, and without loss of time or speech with her abbess grardian made her his wife. Since all the world loves a lover the Ainsty region rang with rejoicings over the match, and Isabel Fairfax and her gallant knight lived happily ever after. Through his wife, William acquired Denton Castle and through her descendants the nunnery where she was confined was wrestled from the abbess, and Nun-Appleton, built upon its site was afterward the home of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd baron, whose daughter's wooing was less tempestuous, but whose married life as Duchess of Buckingham was full of sorrow. The hothead himself, Sir William Fairfax was less patient with others of a like nature. Upon his death, he was suceeded by his second son, the eldest having died. Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton who received that estate from his mother, but who lost Steeton Castle to his youngest son, Gabriel. The unruly son Thomas had offended his father by aiding the Duke of Burbon at the sacking of Rome, hence his name is not even mentioned in the will. This will, copies of which still exist is a corious document, in which the son fallen under the father's displeasure is never mentioned." (Baltimore Sun, 15 January 1903)
Aged 80 at time of death in 1579.
Aged 80 at time of death in 1579.