Extract of Will of Henry Cole

of Lympne, Kent

… soul to god … to be buried in the churchyard of Lympne
To the poor 40s … to the poor of the parish of Lympne 4 pounds to be paid To the white lynnynge of the church of Lympne a lode of lyme
Itm I give & bequeath to Margaret my wife my best cupboard in the halle so long as she lyveth & after her decease to my daughter Myldred, but if she died before my wife then I will it to remain with Margaret my daughter

I bequeath to Johan my daughter the holde cupboard standing in the halle
Also I give to the said Johan my daughter my harness girdell with her mothers ringe
Also I give her my featherbed with bolster which I bought of Hobbes of Canterbury
Furthermore I bequeath to the said Johan my daughter a pair of sheets with a blanket and a coverlet

To Henry Cole my son the best chest which was mine when I was single
Then residue of my household stuff w’butter chise baken pulytry beest and gyese I bequeath to Margaret my wife
Also to Margaret my wife 2 couple of my best oxen 3 of my best mares 10 kyen and a bull 12 whenlyng calfes my best sowe with 6 of my best hogges Also I give 6 pigs of this year to the said Margaret a 100 ewes with 3 ramles I give to her also 7 acres of wheate under the hill 10 acres of barley 16 acres of meadowe and my taares at Lympne with 3 yards of beans growing in the croft …
… William Cole my brother … which I intended at Lympe growing in my brother Robert Coles ground …

Itm I give to Henry Den my wifes brother ij haffers & ij ewes
Itm I give to Willyam Cole & Thomas Cole my brother William Coles children when 20y
To Thomas Cole lytell William Coles son
To John Den my wifes brother vj ewes, a young mare & a bull
To my brother William Coles wife …
To Richard Chittenden … George Hamon … Nicholas Hanyge sometime my servant … to William Walter … to Johan Pettes at her marriage …
to John Callowes wife … to my servant Thomson Glover … to Julyann Chittenden my servant … to James Webbe
To William Harrysson & John Harysson … to Henry Brockman my godson … to Henry Wood my godson … to Sedbroke of Aldington …
To Johnson of Hastinglyge my part of a house lying in Elham at a place called Bladberne …

my executor to have the guiding of Richard Cole my brother Roberts son ..
to William Browninge of Lympe
the residue of all my goods the half to Henry my son when 22y …

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