Will of Clement Cooke

of Rolvenden, Kent

In the name of god amen the xxvith day of June in the fyfte yeer of the Reigne of our Sovraigne Ladye Elizabethe Queene of Englande France and Irlande in earthe the Supreme Commander (?)
I Clemente Cooke of Rolvenden of good remembrance thanks bee unto Almightye god doe make my will and testamente in manner and forme followinge
First I bequeathe my soule to Almightye gd and my boddye to be buryed i the churche yarde of Rolvenden aforesaide

Item I will and give to the poore mens box xiid
Item I give to Rycharde Chylde tenne shillings
Also to Wyllam Chylde tenne shillings
Item I will and gyve to Joan Butcher my god daughter tenne shillings
Also I give to Thomas Maymage ? of Tenterden tenne shillings
Also I gyve to Edwarde Delman fyve shillings
Also I gyve to Thomas Dyxson fyve shilings
Also I gyve to Rycharde Gyles tenne shillings

Item I will and gyve to Thomas Patrchinge and Margaret Cooke his syster and Fairvace Carpenter my kowe that ys at Bartehmewe Nortons when he hath kept her a year
If I dye before he shall paye nothinge for the farme [I now owne?]

I wyll and gyve to Margarett Mataye? my blacke pyede kowe that ys in the lande

Item I wyll that my executor shall sell my kowe that ys at Stephyn Vntchers and to paye to Margarett Cooke Fairvace Cooke�s daughter Tenne shillings

Item I wyll and gyve to Stephen Butcher and Margarett his syster my balde mare
Item I giyve to Margarett Cooke, Symon Cooke�s daughter my two greatest brasse potts and a fryenge pann, and two pewter platters and a pewter dishe

Item I wyll and gyve to Margaret Cooke, Fairvace Cooke�s daughter an andyron and a lyttle brasse pott and a steelle pann and a ronnde pann [round?]
Item I wyll and gyve to Fairvace Carpenter my two kettles
Item I wyll and gyve to Thomas Webbe my lyttle cheste
Item I wyll that my Executor shall receyve of Rychard Parys fyve poundes within one yeere after my decease

Item I will that if anye of my cossins John Chylde Wyllyam Chylde and Rycharde Chylde do dye before they have theire moneye the one to be the others heire and yf Thomas Meanninge? doe dye before he have hys tenne shillings hys heires shall have yt and George Tynlye wife
detes and legacies fufilled and paide the residue of my moveable goods I gyve to my executor

Item I make Stephen Butcher my Executor to thys my laste Will and testamente

Wytnes to thys my Wyll and Testamente
Rycharde Parys - Rycharde Gylys - Symon Terrye - John Tolharste

Probatum fuit (not given)

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