Will of John Adye

of Sittingbourne, Kent

To Thomasyn my wife, all my housholdstuff, plate, Corne and burning wood that are in or about my howse in Sittingborne where I dwell and she to have the use, benefitt and profitt of the said howse and of the next house thereunto next adjioyninge nowe in the occupation of William Heydon for and during the terme of her naturall lyfe

Son John Adye & his heires to discharge my wife of all execucions, payments and encumbrances that shall charge or incomber the said howses, orchards or gardens by reason of any Acte or thing done by one Thomas Awdeley of whom I purchased the same
Son John Adye to be my Executor

�30 to my Wife
�20 to my daughter Mary Fell
�10 to my son in lawe Edward Ledesham and to my daughter Johan, his wife, �20
�10 to my son in lawe John Bixe and to my daughter Elizabeth, his wife, �20
�30 to Adye Bixe, eldest sonne of my said daughter Bixe and unto either of the other twoe children of my said daughter Bixe �10 a peece to be paid to their said father to their use and for their better maintenance, within half a yeare after my decease, soe as he doe make a good assurance to pay the some to them att their severall ages of 18 yeares

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Margaret Adye the lease I boughte of Richarde Woode wherein shee is ioyned purchaser with me and also �200

�100 to my daughter Jane Adye, which is in the hands of Richard Taylor of Mylton, to be paide to her with the profit thereof att the tyme the same is lymytted to be paide in my assurance made for the same

And I desire my Cosen John Adye of the Middle Temple to be ayding and assistinge to my said two younger daughters in and about the dealing of their said porcions and bestowing thereof for their better maintenance and advancement in marriage
I doe give unto my said Cosen John Adye �5 in money or a peece of plate of that value at his eleccon

I doe give unto my son John Adye the lease which I have of a howse in Huggin Lane in London and of certen lands and tenements leased to me by Thomas Crippes and of certayne lands in Sittingborne feilde and all my bookes and the writings that concern the landes I have given him or shall give him by this my will and all suche thinges as I have att my howse at Duddington

I doe geve unto every of my servants that shall dwell with me at the tyme of my decease 20 shillings a peece
I doe give unto my frende John Allyn of Fulsten 30 shillings to make him a Ringe
I doe geve unto Mr Foxson of Sittingborne and to Mr Baker of Newenham 20 shillings a peece
I geve unto goodwife West 20 shillings

The overplus to be devided equally between my said wife and my said sonne John Adye
Messuage or tenement called Greytt and certayne lands for my wife during the terme of her naturall life, and after her decease, to my sonne John Adye

I will that my daughter Jane shall have those landes and tenements which I purchased of John Buckherste, gentleman and his wife and of Boys Ower with all and singuler their appurtenances wherein she was ioyned purchaser with me, to her and to her heires for ever
And I will that the writings thereof shalbe safely delivered to her ymediatly after my decease

�10 To my daughter Adye, wife of my said sonne John Adye
20 shillings a peece to my Cosen Onslowe and to my Cosen Hester his wife
10 shillings to Martha Onslowe, daughter of my said Cosen

Witnesses: Thomas Turner, James Wood, Richard Mawditt, Humfrey Jones

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