Will of William Baker

of Saltwood, Kent

First I give and bequeath unto my sonne James Baker ye sume of one hundred pounds to be paid unto him by my Executrix hereinafter named soe soon as he shall attaine his age of one and twenty yeares
Item I give unto my daughter Mary Baker ye sume of two hundred pounds to be paid unto her by my Executrix at her age of one and twenty yeares or day of her marriage which shall first happen And if either of my said sonne or daughter shall happen to departe this life before ye said legacies shalbe due unto them as before said, Then my minde and will is yt ye survivor of them shalbe heire to ye deceased
And if both my said children shall die before their said ages or day of marriage then my minde is yt my Executrix shall pay unto my cousins William Hedgecocke Edward Hedgecocke and Alice Hedgecocke Children of my sister [Elizabeth] Hedgecocke ye Sume of twenty pounds apeece to be paid unto them respectively by my Executrix within six moneths after ye decease of ye survivour of my said sonne and daughter

All ye residue of my goods Chattells and personall estate whatsoever my debts legacies and funerall expences with ye charge of proveing this my last will and testament being first paid and satisfied I give and bequeath ye same and every parte thereof unto my loveing wife Alice Baker whome I make and ordaine sole Executrix of this my Last will and testament

Item I give and bequeath unto my said sonne James Baker and his heires all my free lands and tenem[en]ts not setled in Joynture on my said loveing wife To have and to hold unto my said sonne James his heires and assignes for ever after he shall attaine his age of one and twenty yeares

And my will and minde is th't my said loveing wife shall receive ye rents issues and profitts of all my said lands and tenements dureing my said sonnes minority for and towards his maintenances and educacon And if my said sonne shall departe this life before he attaine his said age of one and twenty yeares Then I will and devise all ye said lands and tenements unto my said daughter Mary and her heires and assignes for ever from and after her said age of one and twenty yeares or day of marriage as aforesaid And my loveing wife to receive ye rents issues & profitts thereof for and dureing my said daughters minority towards her maintenance and educacon as aforesaid

And if both my said children shall departe before their said age of one and twenty yeares and without heires of their bodies lawfully begotten Then I will and devise all my said lands and tenements unto my said loveing wife and her Assignes for and dureing her naturall life and from and after ye decease of my said wife she surviveing my said children and they dieing without issue as aforesd. I give and bequeath all my lands and tenements and other my reall estate whatsoever unto my loveing brother Edward Baker his heires and assignes for ever

Item I doe nominate and appoynt my loveing brother in law James Jones ye younger of Standford to be ye overseer of thus my last will and testament and I doe hereby revoake all former wills by me maide

In witnes whereof to ye first sheete of my last will and testament contained in two sheetes of paper I ye said Edward Baker [William Baker!] have subscribed my name and to ye second and last sheete thereof I have sett my hand and Seale dated ye day and yeare first within written
William Baker
Signed sealed published and declared by the said William Baker to be his last will and Testament in the prsence of
Francis Peck; Claudius Chere?; Tho: Tournay

Probatum fuit: 20th January 1685/86

An Inventory of all and singuler the goods Chattles and Cattle of William Baker Late of the parrish of Saltwood in the County of Kent Taken and aprised this fourtenth day of January 1685(/86) by Edward Baker of the parrish of Poosling [Postling] and Thomas Holmes of the parrish of Folk[e]stone as followeth

											£.	s.	d.
Imprimis	his purse, gerdle and wearing apparrel and redy Mony			09	00	00
		In the Hall
	Item	one Table & fourme, one safe, one smale Table, four Chaires,
		five Cooshens, one payer of andirons, one payer of pot hangers,	
		fire pans & tonges, one Iron poot					01	10	00
	
		In the Parlor
	Item	one pres Cobbard, one little Table, four Joyne stooles, Two
		Chayers, one bras Cittle [Kettle]					00	15	00

		In the Washoose [Wash house]
	Item	one Coppar, one tube, one Chesepres [cheese press], three payles, 
       one bras poot, two Skillits, dishes & Spoones one trenchard, one Charne [churn]	00	10	00
       
       In the Milkhorse [Milkhouse] 
       Item	two Tubes with poorke, six Coolars, twelve small boules,
       	four Trogs, one Croke full of botlar, one bras Cittle, one neding
       	troofe [kneading trough], one firing pan					06	10	00
       
       	In the butry [Buttery] 
       Item	four small barrels, two Saddles and two bridles, one foxtrape		01	00	00
       
       	In the best Chamber
       Item	one fether beed redy furshned [ready furnished] as it stands, one
       trucle beed redy furneshed, one Courte Cubard, one trunke, one box, two Chistes	04	15	00
       
       	In the butry [Buttery] Chamber
       Item	one fetherbed redy furneshed, two Chistes, two Chaires			02	15	00
	Item	twelve payer of Sheetes, three payar of pillowbers, Six table
		Clothes, two dosen & a halfe of napkins, one dosen of towels
		and other small linnen and a parsell of new Clith			10	11	00

       In the parlor Chamber						
	Item	one passell [parcel] of wool for Winter Clothes, one parsel of 
		great beens, Cras li..ing ?, whols cheses [whole cheeses], 
       three semes of barly, one small parsell of whete, five qartars 
       [quarters] of hempe								11	11	00
       
       Item	due upon small debts							16?	18	10?
       Item	due upon bonds and other Security					297	00	00
	
		In the barne
	Item 	five semes of yellow peese, one parsell of gray peese and
		twelve semes of otes							14	00	00
	Item	one Ceart, two harrows, one plow, two Cribes and other small
		things belonging to husbandry						01	05	00
	Item	seven lode [loads] of hay						10	10	00
	Item	for wood about the house						01	00	00
	Item 	three hogs and three pigs						02	10	00

	Item	four Cowes								12	00	00
	Item	eight young boolloks [bullocks]						16	00	00
	Item	fifty yeres  								22	00	00
	Item	two Corlts [Colts]							06	00	00
	Item	one score [20] of wethars						12	00	00
	Item 	thirty eight tags							11	00	00
	Item 	things unseen and forgotten						00	10	00

							The sume totall			418	10	00
   	Witnes our hands:  Edward Baker;  Thomas Holmes	

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 6th February 2024

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