On 01/06/16 00:38, Jan Wolfe wrote: > In line 6 of the will of Richard Drax, does the will say > > Itm lego Johanni Wakfeld iij s > or > Itm lego Johanne Wakfeld iij s ? > > Is the bequest to John or to Joan Wakfeld? Assuming you actually mean line 9, where the amount is 3s 4d (a convenient amount, being quarter a mark, the value of a half-noble coin), it seems to me to be fairly clearly Johanni, i.e. a man named John. Richard