Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Halifax Wills, Vol. 2: Being Abstracts and Translations of the Wills Registered at York From the Parish of Halifax; 1545 1559
Halifax in 1454, of a stained glass window by Thomas Rookes in 1457 - 8, of service books by John Haldesworth in 1497, and of a cope and altar cloth by Christopher Lacy in 1518, all to Halifax church, whilst Richard Eycrode left a chalice or an ornament of the value of 1x8 to the church of Heptonstall in 1493. Elland Church and Kirklees Priory also received gifts under the will of Sir John Savile in 1399. Building operations are marked by the legacy of William Marshall to the bell tower of Halifax in 1482, and by the founding of the Rokeby chapelby the Archbishop in 1521, to which he also bequeathed a chalice, vestments, and ornaments.
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