Inprimis I give & bequeath unto Bennet Christian and Elizabeth Christian all that my houshold equally to be devyded betweene them except two paire of course sheets wch I give to my daughter Jane
Also I give to Thomas Christian one redd heifer
Item I give to Edward Christian Fiftie shillinges
and to John Christian and Valentine Christian Fortie shillinges apeece
More I give to my sonne William Christian and Abraham Christian whome I ordaine Executors of this my last will and Testament Thirty
shillinges apeece
And my will is that my debts and legacies and funerall rights beinge distrayned whatsoever
remaineth to be devyded betweene my daughters Bennet Christian and Elizabeth Christian towards their appattellinge
Item my will is that all my legacies before given and bequeathed shall be paid unto them as is before specified halfe a yeare after my decease
the marke of Alice Christian
Read sealed and published in the presence of
Thomas Munday; Vincent Safery, his marke
Probatum fuit: 7th October 1631
An Inventory of all the goods and chattels and moovables of Ales Christian, Late deceased
£. s. d.
Inprimis her purse and girdle & in her keeping 0 5 0
her apparrell 2 0 0
In the Haule [Hall]
Inprimis A table and a forme 0 10 0
Item A smale matted Cjaire & a Childs Chaire and a jont [joined] stoole 0 1 6
Item a paire of Cobb Irons & a dripeing pan 0 2 6
Item pot hangers, Gridiron and tongges 0 2 0
Item a Cake Iron & Frying pann 0 1 6
Item an Iron pott, an Iron Kettle & a brass pott & pott hookes 0 11 0
Item a brase stupnet, a brase Chaffing dishe, 2 brasse Candlestickes, a skillete &
skummer of brase 0 3 2
In the Buttery
Item two beere barrells 0 1 6
Item five bowles and 2 keelers, one trugg 0 2 6
Item a Cheany [China?] dishe, a blew platter 0 0 6
Item a Can and Cupps 0 0 6
Item a breade grate 0 0 4
Item a brine stocke 0 2 0
Item a Chest 0 2 0
Item a bedstle, a feather bolster, 2 feather one feather bed pillowes, a glocke
bolster, 3 blanckets & 2 Coverlets 3 12 0
Item 4 Paire of sheetes & one add [old?] one 1 11 0
Item 2 longe table clothes 0 12 0
Item 9 napkins 0 3 0
Two Cupbord Clothes whereof one diaper 0 3 0
Item a pillowe Coate & foure yarde Choirbheifes 0 4 0
Item 2 linen aprons 0 3 0
foure pewter platters, six smale dishes of pewter, a pewter
Candlesticke, a double salt of pewter 0 10 0
Item a fether bed & fethr bolster 1 6 8
Item a Caldron 0 10 0
Item a flockbed & hamper 0 2 6
Item 2 Chests & a boxe 0 16 0
Item a Corte table 0 4 0
Item other lumber in the house 0 3 0
Item aples in the orchard 2 5 0
Item twenty bushells of wheate 3 15 0
5 seames & a halfe of Barly 5 0 0
Item a sowe and 3 lewer ? 1 11 0
Item woode aboute the house 0 7 0
Sum: 27 4 2
Notes:
Alse Christian, widow, was buried at Holy Cross, Goodnestone-next-Wingham on 11 Sep 1631.
Thomas Christian, Husbandman of Goodnestone married Alice Reyner, virgin of Nonington, on 10 Dec 1594 at St. Mary the Virgin, Nonington, Kent,
by Licence.
Thomas Christian was buried at Goodnestone on 15 Feb 1619/20. See his Will: PRC/32/45/5c or PRC/31/75 C/4 dated 1619.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 12th October 2023
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