Ed_1_Will

In the name of the father, the son, and holy spirit, amen. We Edward, first son of the noble King of England, make our testament, of sound mind and good memory, the Saturday following Pentecost in the year of our lord one thousand two hundred seventy-two. In this way, first, we dedicate to God and our lady Blessed Mary and to all the saints, our soul and our entombed body. Whereas, our executors, that is to say Lord Johan of Bretagne, Lord William of Valence, Lord Roger of Clifford, Lord Payn de Chaurtos, Lord Robert Teletot, Lord Otes de Grauntson, Robert Burnett and Antoine Becks, or any one of them, who we will have ordered

which gives and grants full power so that they may arrange for our soul, with all our goods, moveable and immovable, in order to settle our debts and redress the wrongs that we comitted, by us or by our bailiffs, and render to [members of ] our household [compensation for] their service according to what they view may be appropriate. And, since we know that our assets will not be enough to [cover] those, we wish and grant that our aforementioned executors have the full power, which we grant now before we are able, to arrange and establish, regarding all of our lands in England, Ireland, Gascony and all of our other lands, that they be able to work them in the same way the we did when they [the lands] were in our hands, without selling or donating, and hold them in their hands together with the care of the children until their [the children’s] full age, to carry out our last will and give our alms in England and elsewhere according to that which our executors will see that it is fitting to do. To this end, we designate one hundred thousand marks. And after the provisions of my will having been fulfilled and our alms paid out, we desire that the proceeds of the said lands be remitted to our children and remain in the hands of the named executors until our above-named children are of age.^{1That is, until they reach the age of majority.} And if it so happens that our Lord the King, our father, were to die before our children come of age—may God forbid—we desire that the Kingdom of England and all other lands that can escheat to our children remain in the hands of our named executors together with our dear Piere, the Archbishop of York and Lord Roger, and with other prudhommes of the Kingdom whom they consult, if need be, until our said children come of age, and that the proceeds of the above-mentioned lands be collected and kept, through the hands of our named executors, and delivered to our children when they have come of age, for their benefit. And concerning this, we wish and command that two or more of our executors should have the power to hear our accounts and to collect on them from all our Bailiffs, as they had been **before our departure from England, and then if they are unable to demonstrate that they have rendered legal account, and if none of our Bailifs should die, they are bound to render what is due for his locale, for the dowry of our dear wife Eleanor, we desire that she have in full that which was stated when we put them in place and if this does not fulfill [his duty] to pay we would like for her to have that which by right and law is granted to her according to the customs and the laws of England. And we would also like for there, where all our exectuors can be to undertake the execultion of our aforesaid will, that four or more, in the name of the others, have power for them, And for the others to accomplish the said things. And for them, we pray to our holy father the pope, that he wishes to hold, and bind and confirm this thing, and that he wish to ask of our dear Father, that he wishes to hold as set forth, and bind it throughout his entire kingdom and all his power

we grant to them, before we can organize and grant, ... that they be able to open up in the same way when [the lands] were in our

wherever it may be, the above-mentioned things. In witness to this thing, to this testament, we have placed our seal and have asked Lord John, Archbishop of Tyre and vicar of the Holy Church of Jerusalem and the honorable, noble brother Hugh Revel, Master of the Hospital and brother Thomas Berard, Master of the Temple who have also affixed their seal to this writing, which were seen completed together with our named executors as witness to the above-mentioned things. Given in Acre the Saturday before noon, the eighteenth day of June in the fifty sixth year of reign of the King our father.

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