rne, whome by the lawe
of god, I take for my true and lawfull wife;'[33] another part and a
half equally to my son Edmund and my daughter Anne--my son in law
Robert Baker and his wife I remember not in this my will, as I have
already given them their portion; to the quire in Windsor 40s.; to
the poor of Radwinter 40s.; to the poor children of the hospital at
London 20s.; to the poor of St. Thomas Apostle in London 20s.; to
each child of my son Baker 10s.; to each child of my cousin
Morecroft, Clerk 5s.--'I make & ordayne the sayed Marion Isebrande
al_ia_s Marion Harrison, daughter to William Isebrande and Ann his
wife, sometyme of Anderne neere vnto Guisnes in Picardie, and whome
by the lawes of god I take and repute in all respectes for my true
and lawfull wife,' and my son Edmund Harrison, my
Executors.--Witnesses, Mr. Wm. Birde, Esq., Thos. Smith, yeoman;
Lancelott Ellis, vicar of Wimbishe; & Thos. Hartlie the writer
hereof."

His Will was proved on November 22, 1593, by the said Edmund Harrison, son
and executor named therein, the relict and executrix Marion, being dead.
Letters of administration to the goods, etc., of Marion Harrison, late of
New Windsor, in the county of Berks, were granted on December 12, 1593, to
her son Edmund Harrison.

William Harrison had opinions of his own about public and social matters
in his day, and also had often racy ways of expressing those opinions.
I'll extract some. He calls Becket "the old cocke of Canturburie;" notes
how the Conferences of clergy and laity stirrd the parsons "to applie
their books ... which otherwise ... would giue themselues to hawking,
hunting, tables, cards, dice, tipling at the alehouse, shooting of
matches, and other like vanities;" he complains of the subsidies and taxes
that the clergy are made to pay, "as if the church were now become the
asse whereon euerie market man is to ride and cast his wallet;" also of
"the couetousnesse of the patrones, of whom some doo bestow aduousons of
benefices vpon their bakers, butlers, cookes, good archers, falconers, and
horsekeepers," while others "doo scrape the wool from our clokes;" he
notes how Popish "images ... and monuments of idolatrie are remooued" from
the churches, "onelie the stories in glasse windowes excepted," which are
let stay for a while, from the scarcity and cost of white glass; he'd like
to get rid of Saints' Days; he com