Item I give unto Richard Ambrose my grandchild and his heirs the mansion house or tenement wth the landes thereunto belonging wherein
I now dwell
Item I give unto Elizabeth my daughter wife to Richard Foxe the bedd wherein I now lye wthall the furniture thereunto now belonging as
allso the courte Cubbard standing in the same Chamber
Item I give unto Alce my daughter late wife of Thomas Pett all that my tenement or dwelling howse wherein one Griffin Writing now
dwelleth wth the land thereunto now belonging
and after shee shall end this naturall life, my will is that my godchild Richard Pett shall have the same to him and his heires for evf
Item I give unto my grandchild Mary daughter of Stephen Ambrose the sume of tenn shillings to bee paid her by my Executor wthin one yeare
next after my decease
Item I give Jervice Ambrose my grandchild the some of two shillings six pence to bee paid by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my
decease
Item I give to Mathew Ambrose my grandchild the sume of ijs vjd [2s 6d] to bee paid by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give unto Isaack Ambrose my grandchild the sume of ijs vjd to bee paid by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give unto Edward Ambrose my grandchild the sume of ijs vjd to bee paid by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give unto all my grandchildren wch are the Children of Alce my daughter late wife of Thomas Pett deceased the sume of xijd to bee paid
by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give to my grandchild Jane Barry the some of xijd to bee paid to her by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give unto my grandchildren wch are the children of Elizabeth my daughter the wife of to Richard Foxe to every one of them twelve pence
apeece to bee paid unto them by my Executor wthin one yeare next after my decease
Item I give to my grandchild Alce the wife of Thomas Swayne that chest wch stands at the bedds feete in the upper Chamber wherein I
usually lye: As allso I give unto her the some of three shillings and fower pence to bee paid her by my executor wthin one yeare next after my
decease
Item I give unto Thomas Cullen my grandchild the some of three shillings and fower pence to bee paid by my executor wthin one yeare next
after my decease
And of this my last will and testament I make my grandchild Richard Ambrose my sole Executor
In witnes whereof I the said Richard Ambrose have hereunto sett my hand and seale at the fifteenth
day of October in the one and twentith yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the grace
of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. and of Scotland the fifty seaven 1624
The marke of Richard Ambrose
Sealed ratified and confirmed for the last will and testament of Richard Ambrose by the sd. Richard Ambrose (in) the prsence of
William Turner, John Hudman, Henry Hull
Probatum fuit: 15th March 1626/27
Notes:
Richard Ambrose was buried at St. Mary, Chilham, Kent on 5th October 1626.
Richard Ambrose married Alice Brickenden 16th June 1561 at Biddenden.
Richard's children (all baptised at All Saints, Biddenden, Kent): 1 Jan 1563 Richard; 5 Mar 1564 John; 10 Aug 1566 Margaret;
28 Sep 1572 Elyzabeth; 28 Aug 1575 Stephen; 21 Jun 1579 Elizabeth.
Daughter Alice Ambrose married Thomas Pett at Chilham on 20th January 1589/90.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 29th August 2022
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