Katherine Milde
1343-1403
Born: Clare Suffolk, England
Died: Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Dated: 24 Feb 1403</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">" left to the high altar of Melford, a marc. To Thomas, her husban's chaplain, half a marc. To Margaret , her maid, a marc. To her two gentlemen chamberlains, each 40 p. To her daughter <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Alice Howard,</strong></em></span> ( who became a great heiress and the ancestress of the Howard) she left all of her headgear, except 2 fillets of pearls of lesser value and all her keverchefs , also a furred cloak and other furs, a long chest and her napery etc. To <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Sir William Clopton</strong></em></span> , her son by her first marriage, she left a piece of silver or covered cup with six silver bells, a bed of white worsted stained with figures of men and women, another bed and mattress, a Paris napkin with a long towel ofthe same workmanship; a green vestment for a chaplain; a missal, and a book called a Byble; a piece ofsilver called a stongynggepc with a cover with the head of leopard and a chest called the great cofre. Finally she left to every baggar coming to her funeral, two pence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> <em> Sciant p'sentes quod ego Willus Clopton filius et heres Thomas Clopton militis dedic etc <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Will'mo Mylde de Clare et Rogero Reue de Melford</span> omnia ilia terras que vocant' Lytones in villis de Melford.</em> ( Know that I will present William Cloppton, son and heir of Thomas de Clare and Roger , knight gave William Reue Melford of all those lands which they call Melford.)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> <em> Sciant quod nos William Mylde de Clare et Rogerus Reue de Melford dimsimus w....</em></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></em></p> <p> </p>