Cooke Will 1560

Will of John Cooke

of Queensborough, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC 17/34/206
Submitted by Shelagh Mason
In the name of God Amen the third day of May in the yeare of our Lord God a thousand five hundred and thyre scoure [1560]
I John Cooke of ye towne of Queensborough in the parishe of Mynster within in the Countye of Kent beinge sicke in body but strong in foughte [thought?] and of good and perfett memorye laude and prayse be unto almightie god ordeyne and make this mye Laste wyll and testament in manr and forme folowinge
First I give and bequethe mye Soule unto God myne maker and redemer and mye bodye to be buryed in the churche yard of Mynster aforesayd

Secondlye I give and bequete unto my daughter Barbara eighte poundes in good and lawfull money with one fether bed one bolster one pillowe one banket one paye of shettes one kyveringe [covering?]

Item I give unto my daughter Thomsyn vil xiijs of good and lawfull money with one fetherbed one bolster one pilowe one blankett one payer of shetes one kyveringe [covering?]

Item I give unto my daughter Jone vil xiijs iijd of good and lawfull money with one fetherbed one bolster one pilowe one blankett one payer of shetes one kyveringe [covering?]

Item I give unto Alice my daughter vil xiijs iijd of good and lawfull money with one fetherbed one bolster one pilowe one blankett one payer of shetes one kyveringe [covering?]

And Avery out of these mye sayd Daughters to have these porcyons at the daye of there marydge And if it shall fortune any of mye sayd Daughters to dye before the Daye of her maryage, Then I will yt her parte shalbe Devided bye Aven portyon betwene the other of mye Daughters which be alyve

Item I give unto John Friend my Godsone iijs iijd

And all the resydue of mye goods moveables and nmoveables (my bequethes contented and payed) I gyve it fullye and wholye unto Jone my wyffe, whome I ordeyne and make my full and hole executrix

And also I make my Brother William Cooke of the parishe of Warpestone in Sothewe? and Anthony Robynson of the towne of Queenborough myn Overseers and every of them to have for theyre paynes takynge five shillinges

The Wytnes are William Raynold and Walter White with others

Probatum fuit: xvith die July [1560]


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