Gilbert Paige

Landholdings

• A house in Crock Street, Barnstaple, his residence, much favoured by the wealthy merchants of the town, and forming the route from the port and quay to the old guildhall and high cross, both situated on the high street. He bequeathed it to his wife for the term of 50 years.
• A house at the high cross, Barnstaple, in the high street at the top of Crock Street, leased to Robert Leyman
• A "Tenement at Rookebeare in the parish of Ffremington", which as stated in his will he had bought from his brother. This is the farmhouse now known as "Higher Rookabeare", where there is a strapwork overmantel that bears the initials "GSP" and "WP" and the date 1630.
• Garden in Green Lane
• Garden and tenement in Bel Meadow

  Marriage and children

Death and charitable legacies

• £5 "to be distributed amongst the poore people of the buroughe and parish of Barnestaple at the time of my ffunerall or shortlie after at the discretion of mine executrix and overseers".
• 40 shillings "to be distributed amongst the poor people of the parish of Ffremington in the said countie of Devon shortlie after my ffunerall by the discretion of my executrix and overseers".
• £5 "to the poore people of Master John Penrose's Almshouses to be imployed towardes the buyeing of sea coales for the poore of that howse for ever".