Cook Will 1614

Will of Thomas Cooke

of Wingham, Kent

Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 32/42/385
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

The Will and last Testament of Thomas Cooke being sicke in bodye and not likely to live but of good & perfect remembrances thankes be to God
In the name of God Amen
First I bequeath my Soule to Allmightie God hopeing through the meritts and pretious [precious] death of his only sonne Jesus Christ my Lord & Saviour to obtaine full remission of all my sinnes and pertaker of his Eternal Kingdome and my bodye to be buryed in the churchyarde of Wingham aforesaid

Item I give to my sonne Thomas Cooke xl [�10] at Michaelmas next and to be put out to the use for the said Thomas Cooke And my best cloake at sixteene yeares oulde And at one & twenty yeares old & to receave [receive] his money and a presse wch [which] standeth in the hall

Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Cooke five poundes to be paid at eighteene yeares ould to be paid by my Executor Also I give unto my daughter my best bedd wholye furnished uppone I now lye wth [with] my best coverlett and two blanketts two paire of sheetes two pillowes two bolsters and a presse wch [which] standeth in the kitchen And two of my best cheste wch standeth in the kitchen lofte And foure of the best peeces of pewter And a brasse pott

Item I give unto my Wife Alice Cooke all the rest of my movable goodes and I doe make (her) my sole executor
Thomas Cooke his marke

(Witnesses): Edward Morris John Morris Thomas Draye

Probatum fuit: 19th July 1614

Notes:
26th October 1597 Thomas Cooke, Yeoman of Sturry married Alice Ratcliffe, Virgin of Sturry, at St. Mary Breadman, Canterbury, by Licence.
Their known children:
29 Apr 1599: Thomas � at SS Peter & Paul, Boughton-under-Blean.
19 Sep 1602: Elizabeth � at St. Mary the Virgin, Wingham.
1 Oct 1608: Katherin � also at Wingham (Not mentioned in Will, so have assumed she dies � BUT burial not found).

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 24th July 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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