Will of Agnes Cok

of Godmersham, Kent

Item I will to the high awter iijd
Item I will to the light of Seynt Laurence iiijd
Item to the light of Seynt Jamys iiijd
Item to the high Auter Cloth a Mother or an ewe Shepe
Item I will at my burying and Monethes mynd three masses and dirige* with necessarie to the same.
* a dirige is a Roman Catholic service for the dead � what we might call today a �dirge�.

Item at my yeres mynd two masses and dirige And a barrell of beer with bredd an chese necessary to the same
Item I will iij yere after my yeres mynd any yere vjs viiijd to de don for my soule the Soule of Richard Holbak my first husband
[he does not seem to have left a will] * de don = give something up � in this case money.

Item I will to Agnes Cok my best gowen my beste of appr [apparel] ij kergenes? and a smok
Item I will to Florance Deyn of Crundall my best kwtell [kettle]
Item to Gusett Tryndey my second kwtell
Item I will my therd kwtell to mother Berch

Item I will to Isabell Arnold my best peticote and two Lokeing Krchones (?)
Item I will to Wilmyn King my second pticote a frock And an Lckeany Kerchowas (?)
Item I will to Elizabeth Arnold a Smok and ff Kergewe?
Item I will to Alys Pilcher my yelow coverlett my pillowes my best table cloth a shete 2 plates and a dishe of pewter

Item I will to Johane Cok a pair of sheets a ketill a platour and two dishes of pewter
Item I will to John Fetcher a kowe that he hath in his keping
Item I will to Moyse Cok ij calves and an ewe shepe
Item I will to Alys Cok a fetherbed with a bolster

Item to Agnes Arnold a kettle with hooles and iiijd
Item I will to any godchild that I have at Crundall iiijd
Item I will to John Cok my valett of shredde and a ketall with a band
Item to William and Agnes Parker my Brothers Children a seme [seame] of Barley

Item I will to Nicholas Elgar an ewe shepe
Item I will to Richard Cok the sonne of John Cok iij ewe shepe
Item to the Midwiff a kersawe and iiijd
To Elizabeth Harvey? in like manr

The Residue of my goodds my debtts and bequethes content and paid I will and geve to Thomas Prior Whom I make and ordeyne myn executor of this my Last testament

Thies being Witnes Jamys le Kannard Vicar John Cok senr and Alys (others!)

Probatum fuit: 26th die October 1535

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