Coke Will 1515/6

Will of John Coke

of Canterbury, Kent

Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 32/12/28b
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

In the Name of god Amen The xxixth day of January in the yere of our lord god .... [1515]
I John Coke of the pryshe [parish] of Saynt Johns without Northgate * besyde Cantbury [Canterbury] hole of mynde and good of Remembrance make my will in this manr [manner] folowying
* This is St. John�s Hospital in the parish of St. Mary Northgate, Canterbury.
Firste I bequithe my Soule to Almyghity god to our lady And to all the holy company of hevyn / my body to be beryed in the churcheyard of Seynt Gregorys
Priory of St. Gregory � the present church was not built until the nineteenth C.

Item I bequithe to the hyge Aluter [high alter] of Saynt Margarette in Cantbury (sic) xijs
Item I bequethe to the hyge Aluer of Saynt John aforesayd iijs

The Residue of my goods not bequithyd I holy geve and beqiuthe to Johane my wyff she to dyspose for the helth of my Soule as she shall thynke best to the pleasure of god

And of this my testament And last will I ordeyne and make myne Executors the said Johane my Wyf and Peter Grove
And I make Master John Broker Alderman myne Overseer of this same testament and last will
And I bequithe to the seid Peter for his labors xl is And to myn Overseer vjs viijd

These Witneshith [Witnesseth] John Broker Alderman of the Cite aforseid - John Toste and others

This is the Last Will of me the said John Coke made the day and yere aboveseid And in the viijth yere of the Reing of Kyng henry the viiijth [1515] [concerning] the disposyng of all my lands and tenents [tenements] within the Citty of Cantbury or els where within the shyre of Kent in the Whnty [Witness of] John Broker Alderman Willym agylys and Wyllym Agarstone and the use of to my Wfe the whyche to him be Right of enheritance of John After the decease of John Tanner late deceased,

First I will that my seid landes and tenets. immediately after my decease shalbe soulde by me feoffes and executors And the money comyng of the sale of the lands and tenents. to be disposed in forme folowyng / that is to say /

to a preist to syng in the Churche of Saynt Margarett aforesaid for my Soule and the soule of the seid John Tanner and all cristen Soules by the space of a yere towards a Coop? to the same Churche of Saynt Margarett xls

The Residew of the money commyng of the seid landys and tents. I holy geve and bequeth to the foreseid Johan my wyfe she to dyspose thereof for the helth of my soule and the soul of the said John Tanner And all Cristen Soules as shall seme here best to the pleasure of god etc.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 7th Dec. 2018. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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