Item I bequethe unto the poore folks of the parysh of Wyckham aforesaid a iijs iiijd [3s 4d] to be bestowed the day of my buryall where most neede
is
Item to the reparacons of the churche a xijd [12d]
Item I bequethe unto my ij daughters Margarett & Agnes to eyther of them thyrtene pounds, 6 shillings & eight pence to be delyvered ymedyatly
after my decease as followethe (that is to say)
unto Margaret my daughter a xiij Li vjs viijd withe my said daughter I wyll shalbe delyvered unto Wyllyam Swynforthe to the use of the said
Margarett to be payde & delyvered unto her by the said Wyllyam Swynforthe his executors or assignes, in the day of her maryage or wthin one monthe
next followinge her said maryage, and the said Wyllyam Swynforthe to put in suffycyent Bonde & surety for the performance hereof as shalbe
thought good unto my executor & oversears
And my other daughter Agnes withe her said porcyon I wyll unto Mr. Lyby Orchard wth the leeke [like] coven[a]nts & assurancs as I have
wylled my said daughter Margarett unto the said Wyllyam Swynforthe in all poynts and condycons
Provyded all way[s] that the said porcons shalbe payde unto my said daughtrs at the furthest at thage of one and twenty yeares of there age, yf they
do not marry before that age
And I wyll eyther of my said daughters to be others heyer yf eyther of them dy before the said age of twenty yeares & unmarryed
And if they bothe fortune to dy before the said age of twenty yeares, Then I wyll the one half of theire porcons unto Jone my wyff yf she
then lyve,
yf not then I wyll that
James Bradshae my brother shall have eight pounds of the said porcyon
and unto Jone my Syster forty shillings
and the other thre(e) pounds to my brother’s daughter Alyce Bradshae
and to Elizabethe my said brother’s eldest daughter a vjs viiijd
And the other xiij Li vjs viijd I wyll
unto Bennett, Mary & Jone daughters of Wyllyam Hollywell, fyve pounds thereof,
and to Gylbert and Agnes Hollywell sonne & daughter of the said Wyllyam Hollywell to eyther of them a xxs
and to Wyllyam Hollywell a xls
and a xls unto the poore folks of the paryshe of Wyckhambrux where moste neede is,
and to Wyllyam Swynforthe a xxs
and the rest wch is a xxvjs viijd resydue of the said xiij Li vjs viijd I wyll unto Elizabeth my brother Rychard’s wyffe
The rest of all my goods & Cattalls moveable & unmoveable (my detts and funerall expences dyscharged), I geve & bequethe unto Jone my wyffe whome
I make & ordeyne the sole executrix of this my last wyll and testament,
and Andrewe Jode and Wyllyam Hollywell to be the oversears of this my said Last wyll and to have for there paynes betwixt them a vs
these wytnesses John Smythe, Clerk; James Owen; Walter Fraunch and John Kenton
Probatum fuit: 2nd March 1568/69
Note: Will Bradshawe, laborer was buried at St. Andrew, Wickhambreaux on 16th January 1568/69.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 7th March 2022
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