Item I do geve and bequeath unto my eldest sonne Sarles Alexander my howse wherein I do nowe dwell scituate in the Fishe markett in Sandwich afforesaid with the appurten[a]nces thereunto beelonginge to him and to his heires for ever when he shall accomplishe the age of Fower and twentie yeares allwayes provided that he pay unto my wife three poundes a yeare quarterlie out of the same howse during hir life
Item I do geve and bequeath to my second sonne Michaell Alexander my howse in St. Maries parishe in Sandwch afforesaid wherein Jacobbe Mahewe doth nowe dwell with the appurtennces thereunto belonginge to him and to his heires for ever when he shall accomplishe the age of Fower and twentie yeares allwayes provided that he pay unto my wife Fortie shillinges a yeare quarterlie out of the same howse during hir life
Item I do geve and bequeath to my youngest sonne John Alexander Fortie poundes in mony to bee paied unto him by my executor when he shall
accomplishe the age of Fower and twentie yeares
And allso I do geve and bequeath unto my daughter Katerine Alexander twentie powndes in monie to be paid unto her my my executrix when she
shall accomplishe the age of sixteene yeares
And further my will and meaninge is that if it shall happen that if any of my said sonnes doe die
before they shall accomplishe their said sevrall ages of of Fower and twentie yeares that then the
porcon or porcons of him or them so deceased shall remaine unto the survivor or survivors of them
And if it shall so happen that all my said sonnes do die before they shall accomplishe their said sevrall ages of Fower and twentie yeares Then
my will is that all their said porcons shall remaine unto my daughter Caterine Alexander and to his heires for ever
And further my said will and meaninge is that if my said daughter Caterine do die before she shall
accomplishe hir said age of sixteene yeares that then hir porcon shall remayne soly to my sonne John Alexander
Item I do geve and bequeath to my Brother John Alexander two dubletts, two pr of breeches, ij pr of wetherstocks and my best cloake to bee geven and delivred unto him by my executrixe within one moneth next after my decease
And further I will that all my legacies being paid and my funerall p'formed all the rest of my goodes
whatsoevr unbequeathed I do geve solie to Jane Alexander my wife
And I Comit unto her educacon and bringing upp of all my children and the better for to maineteine that charge my will is
that she shall receave all the rentes and proffitts of both my howses during the nonage of my children
Allwayes provided that she shall from time to time maineteine and keepe both my said howses
sufficientlie repaired And so leave then at the time when she shall surrender them unto my children
And further I do will and devise that when it shall please God that my said wife is determined to marie againe that then she shall procure two sufficiente men to bee bound unto my overseers for the trewe answeringe of my children their porcons at their sevrall ages unto them limited
And for the better execucon of the premisses I do ordeine and make Jane Alexander my wife my sole executrix of this my last will and testamente
and Richard Hawker and Peter Hawker my overseers of the same
In Witnes whereof I the said Michaell Alexander have hereunto sett my hand and seale dated the day and yeare first above written
Michaell Alexander
Sealed and delivered in the pncs [presence] of:
Thoms. Willson; Chrifer Clarke and Richard Hawker
Probatum fuit: 22nd May 1598
Notes:
13th April 1598, was buried Mychaell Allaxanda, howsholder, at St. Peter, Sandwich, Kent.
Michael Alexander married Jane Hawker on 16th October 1592 at SS Cosmos & Damian, Challock, Kent.
Jane Hawker (and brothers Richard, Peter, Henry & Alexander; and Sisters Bennet & Mary) were all baptised at Challock 1560-72, children of
Alexander Hawker & Jane (nee Searles), who married 26th July 1546 at SS Gregory & Martin, Wye, Kent;
Michael & Jane Alexander's children (all baptised at St. Peter, Sandwich): 18 Nov 1593 Searles; 6 Jul 1595 Katheryn, 13 Feb 1596 Mycahell &
John (same date). Son John Allaxandar was buried at Sandwich on 21st July 1598.
James Fulcombe, Butcher of Hythe, married Jane Alexander, Widow, at St. Peter, Sandwich on 30th April 1600.
Son Searles Alexander, mercer, married Ann Fulcomb, virgin, both of Hithe, Kent on 4 May 1615 at St. Mary the Virgin, Woodnesborough, Kent, by
speciall lycense.
Daughter Caterine Alexander married James Stiles at St. Leonard, Hythe, Kent, on 16th June 1617.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 22nd January 2023
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