Cooke Will 1650

Will of Thomas Cooke

of Isle of Harty, Kent

Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB11/214
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

Memorandum That Thomas Cooke late of the p’ish of St. Thomas the Appostles in the Isle of Haxley (Harty) and County of Kent Husbandman was deceased in the tyme of his last sicknes whereof hee dyed, and on or about the Thirteenth day of October Annd Dom. 1650, being about three daies next before his death hee being then in good and perfect monde and memory with a serious purpose to settle nd dispose of his Estate did make and declare his last will and Testament nuncpative as followeth, or to the like effect

It is my desire to bee well buryed
And I give to you three (looking upon and speaking unto William Hode William Allard and Richard Fuller then present with him) and to William Wren Tenn shillings apeice, to carry mee to Church to bee buryed And my Mr Woodley shall pay itt,

And then preceeding Further hee said
I give to my two sisters Five pounds apiece out of the Twenty poundes the said William Hode owes mee
And to my Brother William Allard I give Fifty shillings out of itt, and Eighteene shillings more which Ralfe Pearson owes mee

And the said Thomas Cooke being demanded who should have the seaven poundes and tenn shillings remaineing undisposed by the said Thomas of the aforesaid debt of Twenty pounds hee the said Thomas answered and declared That it should remaine in the hands of the said William Hode and that hee should have itt and that the aforesaid Legacies amounting to Twelve poundes and tenn shillings was all that hee should pay out of the said money and that hee should keepe the said Twenty poundes in his handes for another yeare,

Or the said Thomas Cooke did make and declare his minde and will to the like effect seriously et ammo te [and mind you] stand
In the presence of Credible Witnesses
William Allard his marke
Richard Fuller his marke
Witnesses of the premisses.

Probate 25 October 1650

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