In Dei Nomine, Amen. The 7 day of October, in the year of our Lord God 1520, in the 12th yere 
of the reign of Kyng Henry the VIIIth. I, Gyffray Gough, of St. Mary Magdalene Overy 
parishe, in Southwerk, in the county of Surry, on of the yeomen of the gards unto our 
sovereign lord the Kyng, have ordeyned and made this my last will, in this wise & form 
folowyng. First, I bequeth my soul to Almighty God & to our Blessed Lady Virgene Mary, 
Quene of Hevyn, and to all the holy seynts and blessed company of Hevyn, and my body to be 
buried in erth at my pew dore, within our Lady chapell, of my parish church of Mary 
Magdalene aforesaid. And I bequeth unto the blessed and holy sacrament of the high awter 
within the same church 4d. Item, I bequeth unto the broderhood of St. Catryne in the same 
church viiid. Item, I bequeth to the same church, for brikying of the grounde where my body 
shall ly, vis. viiid. The residue of all my goods and chattels movable and unmovablc, dettes, 
and other my detts for my months wages, be it more or less, remayning in the Kyngs hands, and 
vis. viiid. in the hands of my felow Roger Whitton, usher of the Kyngs chamber, and vis. 
viiid. owing to me by my felow John A'Morgan, and xiid. owing me by Ffilypp of the 
Wodyard, grome of the Kyng's hall, lent hym in redy money out of my purse; all these my 
goods and detts, in whose hands some ever they be, or can be found, or known, and other vis. 
viiid. owyng me by Alice Brown, the wife somtyme of Bryan Swynbank of the iii Crownes 
in Southwerk, for a lode of hay, I give and bequeth them all unto Catryn my wife, and 
Elizabeth my daughter part thereof when she cometh to her marriage (at the dyscretion of her 
mother); and if the said Elizabeth my daughter fortune to dye before she come to her day of 
marriage, then I will the same Elizabeth my daughter's part be disposed for my soule and all 
Cristene soules. And to the performyng of this my will I have ordeyned and made Catryn my 
wife and Elizabeth my daughter my executors, to se my body honestly burid and done for after 
my deceyse. And I have ordeyned my frende William Molynes to be my overseer. And I 
bequeth hym for his labor my russet gown furred with Fox. In witnes of this my last will beyng 
present John Dover, baker, William Molynes, the Kyngs sporyer, William Vynkn, Thomas 
Bramefeld, and other, the day & yeare aboveseide.