Chambers Will 1656

Will of Edward Chambers

of Milton next Gravesend, Kent

Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury Prob/ 11/255
Submitted by Veronica Nops

In the Name of God Amen I EDWARD CHAMBERS of Milton next Gravesend in the County of Kent Yeoman being well in bodie but of sound and good memorie blessed be the Allmightie for it doe make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form followinge (that is to say). First I bequeath my Soule into the Hands of my Maker and my bodie to the Earth from whence it was taken to be interred att the discretion of my Executors hereafter to be named.
And so for other my Land and Goodes which the Lord hath lent me I give and bequeath as followeth.

First I give unto my Daughter MARY CHAMBERS fiftie pounds of lawfull English Money to be paid unto her by my Executors within one yeare next after my decease.
Item I give unto the said Daughter one bed greene rugge and a sett of red curtaines and vallance with all other furniture thereto belonging with a joyned cheste with certaine linnen and plate therein which standeth under the windowe in the greene Chamber with a little fowldinge table and one leather chaire parte of them beinge given by her Aunt WILLNER.

Item I give unto my Sonne EDWARD one hundred pounds of good and lawfull Money of England to be paid unto him by my Executors at the age of one and twentie yeares.
And my Will is that my said Executors shall allowe unto him the said EDWARD five pounds yearely or to be paid halfe yearely everie yeare until he shall attaine the age of one and twentie yeares for and towards his better education the first payment to be made within sixe moneths next after my decease.

And for all my other Goods and Chattells not yet given except my Householdstuffe I give and bequeath unto my lovinge Wife and my Sonne JOHN SAMUELL CHAMBERS whome I make sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament.

And further my will is that my Lands not yet given shall remaine unto my Wife for her life and after her decease to be equally divided betweene my two Sonnes EDWARD and JOHN SAMUEL CHAMBERS.

And as for my Householdstuffe above excepted my will is that my said Wife shall have all that was hers before to give where and when and to whome she pleaseth and the use of the Residue as long as she shall live.
And after her decease it shalbe equally divided betweene my three Children.

And I desire that my loving Friends and Kinsmen THOMAS CARTER of Gillingham and WILLIAM HENEKER of Lenham to be Overseers and Assistants unto my (executors) for performance of this my Will.

In Witness whereof I have sett my Hand and Seal this twelfth Day of Aprill in the year of Our Lord one Thousand sixe hundred fiftie and sixe

Likewise the fiftie pounds which I have bequeathed unto my Daughter MARY CHAMBERS shalbe delivered into the Hands of my Kinsman WILLIAM HENEKER for him to make the best advantage for the said MARY.
EDWARD CHAMBERS
Sealed and declared in the presence of JOHN MAY.

Probate 19 May 1656 granted to Mary Chambers the Relict, power reserved for John Samuell Chambers the son

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