Item I will at my burying at the disposition of Moys Cooke my Brother
Item at my momethis mynde twoo bushells of wheate and twoo bushells of malte
Item I will to Alice Albery my mother in Lawe two busshells of malt and xiid in money
Item I will to Katherine Evey xxs when she cometh thage of xx yeres
Item I will Richard Williams a haifer bud blacke yard iii ewe sheepe twoo lambes and one wether
Item I will to my twoo godchildren of John Stones xid a pece
Item to the saide John Stone my olde yaray cooke and to Margarete his wif xid
Item I will to Nicolas Abery my godson one ewe sheepe
Item to Nicolas Shrubsole one ewe of iii yeres age
Item I will to Robert Collyns xiid
To Mary Morris xiid
Item I will to Elizabeth my wife all my instuffe of houshold all my bakyn hogge iiii life waye one
score three kyn at hir choice and fother for them till Saint George
Item I will to my said wife tenne ewe sheepe att her owne choise
Item I will to Moyses my Brother xo seames of wheate and x seames of barley
Item I will my wif to have all the residue of my corne how scituate only excepte to Moyse my brother
Item I will to George Arnold an ewe lambe
Item I will that Richard Testall my servant serve out his yere in the house and he to have the rest of
his wage and twoo ewe sheepe and if he will not serve his yere out he shall not have his twoo sheepe
that I have geven hym
Item I will to Agnes Morrys twoo shillings
Item I will to Joan Shrubsole my sister twoo ewe sheepe
Item I will to my wif halfe my pulleyne halfe my fruite in thorcahrde and my woll
Item I will to my wife my hempe
Item I will to my brother Moys my carte all my horsses and harnes my carte my plough and all
thynges belonging to them and all my othr Cattell and beastes not geven and bequethed
Whom I do make and ordeyne myn Executor in discharging fower poundes and the yeres terme with power unto
hym and paying my dettes and legacies made the day and yere within written
Witnesse: Leonard Vicar Richard Adowne George Alsy and Robert Webbe with others
Probatum fuit September 1552
Notes:
Brother Moys (Moses) Cooke dies and is buried at Godmersham on 5th March 1569. No Will found.
Sister Joan Cooke who m. John Shrubsole, and is buried in Canterbury 7th April 1575, and
husband John Shrubsole is buried 15th April 1579, Boughton-under-Blean, Kent.
- Possible children: Joan, John, Edward, Thomas � christened between 1569 and 1571 at Boughton-under-Blean
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