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Sir Lewis CLIFFORD, KG
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Has one ancestor and one descendant in this family tree.
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Name Lewis CLIFFORD Prefix Sir Suffix [ONS gp] KG Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Gender Male Will 17 Sep 1404 Written - (Transcription in Testamenta vetusta, v.1, p.164)
"I, Lewis Clifford1, false and traitor to my Lord God,
and to all the blessed company of Heaven, and unworthy
to be called2 a Christian man, make and ordaine my testament
and my last will the 17th of September, 1404. At
the beginning I, most unworthy and God's traitor, recommend
my wretched and sinful soul wholly to the grace
and to the mercy of the blessful Trinity, and my wretched
carrion3 to be buried in the furthest corner of the churchyard
in which parish my wretched soul departeth from my
body. And I pray and charge my executors, as they will
answer before God, and as all my whole trust in this matter
is in them, that on my stinking carrion be neither laid
cloth of gold nor of silk, but a black cloth, and a taper at
my head, and another at my feet; no stone, nor other
thing whereby any man may know4 where my stinking
carrion lieth. And to that Church do my executors all
things which ought duly in such case to be done, without
any more cost than for poor men6. Also I pray my surveyors7
and my executors, that any debt that any man
can ask me by true title, that it be paid ; and if any man
can truly say that I have done him any harm, in body or
in goods, that they make largely his demand, whilst the
goods will extend. And I will also that none of my executors
meddle or administer any thing of my goods with-
out advice and consent of my surveyors, or some of them.
Now, first, I bequeath to Sir Philip la Vache, Knight, my
mass-book and my porhoos8; and my book of tribulation to
my daughter, his wife. The residue of my goods I bequeath
to Philip la Vache, John Cheyne, and Thomas Clanvow,
Knights, whom I likewise appoint surveyors of this my
will; and I constitute John Andrew, John Carleton, Walter
Gaytone, and Thomas Barbowe, my executors*. Proved
December 5th, 1404."
1 - ' Knight of the Garter, and ancestor of the Lords Clifford of
Chudleigh ; he is celebrated for having been seduced by the Lollards,
but repenting of his apostacy he confessed his error to Thomas
Archbishop of Canterbury ; and the contrite manner in which
he speaks of himself in his will shews that his repentance was
sincere. He died shortly after the date of his will. It is worthy
of remark, that this Sir Lewis Cliiford was very frequently appointed
an executor or supervisor of the wills of his contemporaries,
which allows the inference of his having been a man of acknowledged
integrity.
2 - Clepyd.
3 - Careyne.
4 - Witt.
5 - Liggeth.
6 - "Saafto pore men."
7 - Survivors.
8 - "Portoos" in the abstract in Collins' Peerage.
* - Printed at length in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. p. 341, and in Collins' Peerage, vol. vii. p. 156.
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Died Yes, date unknown Siblings1 brother Patriarch & Matriarch 
CLIFFORD, d. Yes, date unknown (Father)
Person ID I25717 All Last Modified 15 Jan 2018
Father CLIFFORD, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F10026 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Children 1. Elizabeth CLIFFORD, b. Abt 1361, d. 5 Mar 1413/14 (Age ~ 53 years) Last Modified 15 Jan 2018 Family ID F10028 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- (Transcription in Testamenta vetusta, v.1, p.164)