Item I give unto Fortie poore people of Ashe aforesaid the summe of Twelve pence a peece to bee paid unto them by my executor hereafter named and also I give unto Twenty other poore people of the same parish sixe pence a peece to bee paid unto them also by my executor
Item I give unto my Aunt Annis Kempe widdow the some of five poundes to bee paid unto her within one month next after the
probate of this my will
Item I give unto the daughter of my said Aunt the some of Twenty shillings and I doe also give unto the daughter of my said Aunt's
daughter the some of Tenn Shillings to buy her clothes with all
Item I give unto John Kempe my Aunt's sonne Tenn shillings
Item I give unto my Cosins William and John Milven the some of Twenty shillings a peece
Item I give unto my Cosin John Carre sonne of James Carre the some of Tenn shillings
Item I give unto Barbara the daughter of William Carre two Ewes of the value of Twenty shillings at the least to bee kept to
halves for her use by my executor until shee comes to the age of eighteene yeares or day of marriage which shall first happen
Item I give to William Annis and Katherine Dodd the some of Tenn poundes a peece to bee paid unto the said William at his age of one and twenty yeares and unto the said Katherine and Annis at theire severall ages of eighteene yeares or dayes of marriage which shall first happen
Item whereas uppon my marriage with my good wiffe Jone Pout I did give bond or bonds for the payment of some money more to her children than theire fathers porcions given unto them and for that there is now some doubt the bonds or writings are lost and not to bee found I doe give unto Elizabeth Pout and John Pout in case the same bonds or writings are lost soe much mony a peece as it shall by the oathes of two honnest men bee made apppeare I was by the bonds or writings aforesaid to pay unto them to bee paid at the same tyme when by the bonds or writings aforesaid it was to bee paid them
Item I doe give and bequeath unto the said Eliabeth and John Pout Five Ewes a peece
Item I doe give and bequeath unto every one of my house hold or Covernante servants the some of Twelve pence a peece
Item I doe give unto every one of my godchildren the some of Twelve pence a peece
Item I doe further will that all the mony whatsoever that shall be any wayes expended either in travell Composition or any other
wayes whatsoever concerning the gayning of my eldest sonnes wardshipp shall be disbursed and paid out of my parsonall estate
And all the residue of my parsonall estate whatsoever unbequeathed or unwilled in this my will my debts and funerall expences being discharged I doe give and bequeath unto John Carre my youngest sonne to bee paid unto him at his age of one and Twenty yeares
And if in case my said sonne John shall dye before his said age of one and twenty yeares Then I give the legacy before given unto him
unto William Carre my eldest sonne my Unckle Stephen Solly and the three children of my Sister Dodd That is to say
to my sonne William one Third parte thereof to my Unckle Stephen Solly one other Third parte thereof and the other third parte to
the children of my said Sister Dodd
Item I give and bequeath unto Alice my welbeloved wiffe during her naturall life the some of Tenn Pounds a yeare of lawfull mony of England over and besisdes the Twenty poundes per annum I setled uppon her at my marriage with her to bee paid out to her halfe yearely by equall porcons at the Feast dayes of St John Baptist and the birth day of our Lord Christ The first payment to begin at the first of the said feasts that shall next happen after my decease out of those my landes which I shall heereby give unto William Carre my eldest sonne
And if it shall not bee duly paid unto her at the dayes aforesaid I doe heereby give her power to distreyne for the same and the landes aforesaid Provided alwayes and my will and meaning is that if my said wife shall any wayes by lawe bee lawefully putt off from the said Thirtie poundes a yeare and shall not by lawe bee able to recover the same Then and not otherwise I doe give unto her my said wife for every Tenn poundes a yeare of the said Thirtie poundes that shee shall not by lawe bee able to recover the some of fower score poundes of lawfull mony of England to bee paid unto her within three monthes after it shall bee made apparent that shee cannot by lawe recover the same
Provided also and my will and meaning is that if my said wife shall any wayes seeke to over throwe this my will Or shall not bee well content and satisfied with what before I have setled on her in lieu and full satisfacon of all her right and interest in all or any of my estate whatsoever Then my will is that shee shall have noe benefitt at all by this my will any thing heerein before mentconed to the contrary not withstandinge
Item I give and bequeath unto John Carre my youngest sonne and to his heires and assignes for ever One peece of errable land
conteyning by estimacon Sixteene acres and called or knowne by the name of the Sixteene acres and lyeth outmost of my landes neere
unto Richborow Castle And also one other peece of errable land conteyning by estimation eight acres and called or knowne by the name
of the further eight acres and adjoyning to the Sixteene acres aforesaid towardes the East And also one other peece of errable land
conteyning by estimacon fower acres adjoyning to the said Sixteene acres towardes the South West and also the one halfe of one other
peece of errable land conteyning by estimacon eight acres and called or knowne by the name of the hether eight acres That is so say
that halfe which lyeth next and best adjoyning to the landes before bequeathed
All my landes before given unto the said John my sonne I doe value to bee the one Third parte of all my landes and Tenements
whatsoever and I doe give him the same in full of a third parte thereof
All the residue of my landes and Tenements whatsoever not before bequeathed I doe give and bequeath unto William Carre my eldest
sonne and to his heires and assignes for ever
And I doe earnestly intreate my aforesaid Unckle Mr Stephen Solly of Padding to use the best meanes hee cann to gayne the
wardshipp of my eldest sonne and doe earnestly desire that hee may have the same and doe desire him to take uppon him the government
and bringeing upp of both my sonnes untill theire severall ages of one and twenty yeares or dayes of marriage and to educate them as
his owne
And I doe will and give unto him the yeareley benefit of theire severall meanes and porcons untill the tymes aforesaid that they are
to enjoy the same themselves hee my said Unckle keeping all my houses housing and fences of my landes well and substantially repered
And I doe hereby nominate and appoynt my said Unckle Stephen Solly to bee my sole executor of this my last will and testament and
doe hereby revoke all former wills by mee made
In Witnesse whereof I the said Richard Carre have to the three first sheetes of this my will subscribed my marke and to the last
sheete hereof my hand and seale this nyneteenth day of February in the Fifteenth yeare of the reigne of our most gracious Soveraigne
Lord Kinge Charles Anno Domini 1639
Richard Carr
Sealed signed published and declared by the said Richard Carre to bee his last will and testament in the presence of
Humpfry Hobbs his marke - Daniell Safery his marke - John Safrey - James Thurbarne
Probate granted 17th April 1640; confirmed 30 July 1640 to Stephen Solly
Note: A covernant servant worked for wages only - no food
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