Will of William Grevill, 1513

This is perhaps the most significant surviving Cheltenham medieval will. William Grevill was a justice of the king's bench, and a significant landowner in the Cheltenham area, also deriving income from sheep farming in the north-east Cotswolds and into Worcestershire and Warwickshire. His long will makes many pious bequests, including for the upkeep or alteration of churches in Todenham, Lower Lemington, Llanthony (Gloucester) and Winchcombe. A brass memorial tablet to him survives in St Mary's Minster, Cheltenham.  He is discussed in Anthea Jones, A New History of Cheltenham; see also Christopher Dyer, A Country Merchant 1495-1520