Item I give & bequeath unto my three daughters Elizabeth Mary & Margarett one Guinea
apeice & to my daughter Edith one shilling to be paid unto them by my Executrix &
Executor hereafter named within one month after my decease
Item I give & bequeath unto my youngest daughters Jane & Ann Cogger the sums of one
hundred pounds apeice of lawfull money of England to be paid unto them within Six Months after
my decease out of the money which shall bee raised by sale of my Messuages & lands herein
ordered to be sold by my Executrix & Executor
Item All the rest & residue of my Goods cattell chattells debts ready money bills bonds leases & mortgages & other my personall estate whatsoever I give & bequeath unto my dear & loveing wife Elizabeth Cogger & to my eldest sonn John Cogger equally to be devided betweene them (they paying & dischardgeing my debts lecacies funerall expenses & probac[i]on of this will) and I hereby make & ordaine my said loveing wife Elizabeth & my said sonn John Cogger full & sole Executrix & Executor of this my last Will & Testament, and as concerneing my land & tenem[ents] I give and dispose thereof as followeth
Item I give & bequeath unto my said loveing wife Elizabeth & to my said sonn John Cogger All that my Messuage or tenem[ent] called little Kippington with the barnes stables outhouses yard garden & orchard & ffive peices or parcels of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging contayneing by estimacon seaventeene acres more or less situate lyeing & being in Seavenoaks aforesaid and now in the tenure or occupac[i]on of William Butterfeild or his assignes, and also three messuages or tenem[ents] with the outhouses yards gardens orchards & appurtenances to them or either of them belonging or appeteyneing situate lyeing & being in Seavenoaks towne in Seavenoaks aforesaid & now in the severall tenures or occupac[i]ons of John Williams _______ Cater & ______ Boreman widdow or there assigne or assignes to have and to hold to my said loveing wife Elizabeth & my sonn John Cogger their heires & assignes for ever (the aforesaid Messuage lands & premisses called Little Kippington chargeable with a Mortgage of two hundred pounds with interest which I lately made to my daughter Mary Harrod but uppon speciall trust & confidence in my said wife & sonn John reposed that they or the survivor of them or the heires of the survivor shall & doe with all convenient speed they can sell & dispose of the aforesaid messuages or tenem[ents] lands & p[re]miss[es] with thappertenances for the most they can gett for the same and with the money thereof raised to pay my aforesaid daughters Ann & Jane Cogger there legacies of one hundred pounds apeice, My will & meaneing is that my said two daughters legacies of one hundred pounds apeice shall be putt out att interest by my said loveing wife & my sonn John untill my said daughters shall attain there respective ages of one & twenty years or dayes of mariage w[hic]h shall ffirst happen and the loane or interest thereof made or ariseing to goe towards my said daughters maintenance & education and the overpluss of the money that shall be made by sale of my aforesaid messuages lands & tenem[en]ts if any be after the aforesaid mortgage of two hundred pounds & the interest thereof & my two youngest daughters portions paid and my wife & sonn John�s charges & expenses paid that they or either of them shall be att in the selling or disposeing of my said messuages lands & tenem[en]ts shall be equally devided between & amongst my ffour sonns John William Ffrancis & Thomas Cogger share & share alike
Item all other my messuages or tenem[en]ts lands & hereditam[en]ts whatsoever & wheresoever in
the County of Kent or elsewhere in the Kingdom of England in whose possession soever the same
are in & not herein mentioned to be sold & disposed of (except my wifes joynture and that alsoe
after her decease I give and bequeath unto my aforesaid ffour sonns John Cogger William Cogger
Ffrancis Cogger & Thomas Cogger to have and to hold to them there heires & assignes forever (as
tennants in comon & not joynt tennants In witness whereof I the said John Cogger the Elder have
to this my last will & testament revoakeing all former wills by me made, written in two sheets
of paper to each sheet thereof sett my hand & seale the day and yeare ffirst above written
Signed sealed published & declared by the said John Cogger the Elder to be his last will &
testament in the presence of us who in his presence subscribed our hands as witnesses hereunto
Elizabeth French - Tho. Streatfeild - John Frances
John Cogger (signature & seal)
(probate 20th Nov 1707)
AN INVENTORY of John Cogger 1707
A true and perfect Inventory of all & singular the goods cattell chattells debts creditt & personall estate of John Cogger late of Sevenoaks in the County of Kent yeoman deceased taken & apprized the three & twentieth day of September in the sixth year of the reigne of our Sovraigne Lady Ann by the Grace of God of Great Brittain Ffrance Ireland queene defender of the ffaith etc Anno Dom[ini] 1707 by John Cooke & Samuel Hawes as followeth (that is to say)
� s d
Imprimis the deceaseds wareing apparrell of all
sortes 2 0 0
In the kitchen in the deceaseds dwelling house
Item two payer of andirons one payer of
Creepers ffyer pann and tongs one forke two
spitts one iron coverlide ffour box irons & heaters
seaven candlesticks & two gridd irons one
tosting iron two tables six chayers one
gunn & one lanthorne 2 0 0
In the Washhouse
Item ffour copper boylers ffive brass kettles
ffour brass skillets one little iron kettle
one chorne ffour milke trays ffive pailes
two little coolers twelve pewter dishes
one cheese plate two douzen & halfe of
plates two porrengers two sawcers &
two pewter candlesticks 2 13 0
In the Hall
Item two tables & two chayers 0 5 0
In the Parlor
Item one payer of andirons fyer shovell &
tongs two tables & twelve chayers 2 5 0
In the Brewhouse
Item two brass ffurnances one bucken tubb
one mashfat ffower coolers one sive &
one tapp hoose 1 7 0
In the Greate Celler � s d
Item two leads three milke trays two
powdering tubbs one payer of skailes
& waites three drinke tubbs two douzen
of bottles one sive 1 5 0
In the Little Celler
Item ffour drinke tubbs nine coolers & two
scalders 0 18 0
In the Bunting Room
Item three drinke tubbs one bunting hutch
two meale tubbs two meale baggs one sive
one little cooler & one scalder 0 12 0
In the parlor chamber at topp of the Stayers
Item one payer of andirons ffyer shovell & tongs
one payer of bellows one beddstedle curtained
vallance feather bedd boulster pillowes
blanketts quilt & all thereto belonging
one chest of drawers one table seaven kaine
chayers three window curtaines two curtaine rodds
one lookeing glass & one clocke 7 10 0
In the little chamber over the porch
Item one beddstedle curtained vallance bedd
blankett & rugg 1 0 0
In the hall chamber
Item One payer of andirons one beddstedle curtained
Vallance featherbedd boulster & pillowes
blanketts counterpaine & all thereto belonging
one old chest of drawers two chests
seaven chayers one looking glass two windowe
curtaines & rodds 6 10 0
In the chamber over the bunting room
Item one beddstedle one trundle bedd two ffeather
bedds and all to them belonging & two
chests 2 10 0
In the chamber over the brewhouse
Item one beddstedle flockbedd & all thereto
belonging 0 10 0
Item eighteene payer of sheetes twelve
pillowbeers twelve tablecloathes three
douzen of napkins twelve towells & other
linnen 9 0 0
Item one silver tanckard one silver cupp one
silver porrenger one silver taster & two
silver spoones 8 0 0
In the Barnes
Item wheat & barley & oates peas clover logs 71 10 0
Item six worken oxen 21 0 0
Item seaven young bullockes 10 0 0
Item seaven cowes & ffour calves 17 0 0
Item three horses & mares 6 0 0
Item ffive shoates 5 0 0
Item six score lambs & sheepe 24 0 0
Item one waggon two courts one water carte one
plow three harrowes & all other husbandry
tackleing 8 5 0
Item for the stocke of hoppoles on all the
gardens 60 0 0
Item for the growth of underwood on Everlands
& chesnutt shawes 5 10 0
Item six hundred of hopps growing on Everlands
hopgarden 24 0 0
Item five & thirty hundred of hopps growing on
the joynture lands 145 0 0
Item three & thirty hundred of hopps growing
on Lawrences & Gravell Gardens 132 0 0
Item in ready money 12 0 0
Item debts sperate & desperate 30 0 0
Item old lumber 0 5 0
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Sum Total 619 15 0
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John Cooke
Sammuell Hawes Aprizors
22 November 1707
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