Thomas Weelkes's Last Will & Testament

"In the name of god Amen. That I Thomas Wilkes of Checester in the County of Sussex gent sicke of bodye but of good and p[er]fect mynde & memory god can be thancked do make this my last will and Testament in these words followinge. That is to say I bequeath my soule to god who gave it. And my bodye to the earth from whence it came and as for all othermy landes tenementes goodes chattells bills bondes debts or demaundes dewe to me by any p[er]son or p[er]sons what soever unto my trustic and welbeloved fri[en]d Henry Drinckewater of the p[ar]ishe of Sa[i]nt Brydes London cutler whom I make my full and absolutw executor of this my said last will and Testament. And the reason why I should make the foresaid Henry Drinckewater my Executor is, for that I the said Thomas Wilkes at the makinge and day and date hereof am indebted unto him he said Henry Drinckewater in the some of fiftye shillinges of good and lawfull englishe money for meate drincke and lodginge, and such lyke necessaryes which is alreddy dewe unto him. And do further lykewise desire the said Henry Drinckewater if it shall please god to take me out of this world into his heavenly mercy to se me buryed lyke a man of my profession, and to pay him selfe as well such monys as shall hereafter be layd out and disbursed aboute my buryall as also all such monyes as formerlye he hath layd out and disbursed and dewe unto him before the day and date herof, and the rest of my goodes and chattelles to be divided amoungst my children, that is to say, to my Sonne Thomas Wilkes five shillings to my daughter Katheryne Wilkes five shillings, and all the rest of my goods lands chattelles and hereditam[en]tes whatsoever to my daughter Alce Wilkes, And do as is before mencioned and expressed make him the said Henry Drinckewater my full and absolute Exeecutor of this my Last will and Testament. In witnes whereof I have hereunto putt my handle and Scale the xxxth. day of November in the one and Twentith yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King James ad in the yeare of our Lord God 1623." -- from "The Death of Thomas Weelkes in 1623" by Timothy J. McCann; Music and Letters, Vol. 55, No. 1, January 1974, pp. 45-47