Item I will and give unto Alice my wife all my goods and Chattells to have and to hold to her use during her naturall life
and after her decease I will the same unto my sonne Thomas Baker
Provided nevertheless and my will is that if the said Alice my wife shall come and fall into want and necesseties
shee the said Alice shall have power and may sell any of the aforesaid goods to the releaving her seversll
necesseties, any thing in this my will Contrary notwithstanding
Item I give unto Alice my wife my dwelling house with the orchard and Garden and other edifices thereunto belonging to have and to hold to her during the terme of her naturall life only, and after her decease I give ye said house and land and all other my lands to my said sonne Thomas Baker and to his heires for ever
Provided alwaies that if the said Thomas my sonne shall take to wife Elizabeth Haward then my will and meaning is and I doe give to my said sonne Thomas my said house and land to him during his naturall life and after his decease to his eldest sonne lawfully begotten and to his heires for ever anything in this will to the Contrary notwithstanding
Item I give to Richard Patching my wives sonne twenty shillings and to his three Children each of them six shillings eight pence a peece to bee paid them wthin [within] 6 monthes after my wives decease by him my said sonne Thomas or his heires
Item I doe make my wife Alice my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament
And if my sonne Thomas Baker doe die wthout [without] heires then to come to Richard Shercock�s two sonnes and their
heires for ever any thing in this my will to the Contrary notwthstanding
Richard Baker
Richard Baker William Mapleston Samuel Swafer John Colton
Probatum fuit: Primo dei January 1625(6)
Notes:
Richard Baker was buried at St. Mary, Chartham on 3rd December 1625.
Richard Baker married Als (Alice) Slacke, Widow, on 30th January 1604 at Chartham.
I believe he was previously married, as his children were all christened before his marriage to Alice:
Richard�s known children (all christened at Chartham):
23-Dec 1582 Sara; 17-Nov 1584 Thomas; 05-Jun 1586 Agnes; 23-Feb 1590 Isaac; Feb 1595 a son *;
10-Apr 1597 William (Bu: 8 May 1599). * The entry was obliterated with a black splodge in the register.
Richard�s first marriage is thought to have been to a Susan (not found). She is buried at Chartham, �wife
of Richard�, on 18th April 1599.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 24th October 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.
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