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Arcvhivist's catalogue of will:-
28 Aug 1557. William Lee (of Coventry, surgeon) requests burial in Holy Trinity churchyard; he leaves 20d. towards Trinity's high altar for forgotten tithes; his wife Joan Lee shall enjoy four stables and two gardens in West Orchard (occupied by himself and the barber John Sneyde) for life, paying the will's overseers John Hyndeman (grazier) and Richard Smythe (vintner) 13/4 per year biannually therefrom for use of the testator's son Richard Lee until the boy reach sixteen years of age, whereupon he will receive the rents direct; Richard is also bequeathed a tenement with appurtenances outside Gosford Gate (inhabited by [the tailor] Peter Typpinge) and a croft there cultivated by the testator, and the father's own Cross Cheaping dwelling and the West Orchard estate after the mother's death; if Richard lack heirs, the property will pass to the child which Joan is carrying or by default to the testator's siblings William Lee of Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), Richard Lee of Warwick and Agnes Brount and their heirs; the overseers shall pay P. Typpinge eighteen months after the testator's death 20/-, the testator's bastard John Lee £10 at a rate of £1 per year from the death if he shall live so long, whilst the child which Joan is carrying will receive at eighteen years or marriage £10; the overseers will pay son Richard residuary rents when he reaches sixteen but meanwhile allocate Joan 26/8 per annum therefrom towards his maintenance, as would apply if Richard die meanwhile but she be carrying a child - however, if in fact she not be pregnant and son Richard have died the rents should be paid to William of Stoneleigh, Richard of Warwick and A. Brount and their heirs; Elizabeth Brount will receive 20/- and a red heifer calf in William Hyndeman's custody; the barber Richard Warner, Thomas Hyckman and the local Barbers' and Surgeons' Company will each accept 10/-; W. Hyndeman's daughters Elizabeth Hyndeman and Katherine Hyndeman will both have a heifer calf which is in their father's custody, whereas the testator's son Richard will have one which John Hyndeman holds; the testator's godson William Smythe's heifer is held by his father Richard Smythe; brother William will have his namesake's best velvet-welted gown and a riding coat finished about with silk; brother William's children John Lee and Agnes Lee will each have 20/- as will each of brother Richard's two daughters, but only 10/- apiece goes to Hernry Brount's and Agnes Brount's children Henry, William Brount, Thomas Brount, John Brount, Margaret Brount, Dorothy Brount, Prudence Brount and Alice Brount; the testator's brother-in-law William Hyndeman will accept a black gown furred with lamb, whereas Richard Hyndeman receives 10/-; brother Richard Lee will have his second gown, brother-in-law Henry Brount "that gowne that I nowe goo in" and the testator's godson Richard Rogers 6/8; the wife and her heirs will accept two Well Street cottages inhabited by William Embrye and Oliver Kyllyngley, paying the legacies from the rents; Joan will bestow any residuary effects as she thinks best.