Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Jane the wife of Henry Graye one shilling of lawfull money of England to be paid her by my Executrix hereafter named
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Alice one shilling of lawfull money of England to be paid her by my Executrix hereafter named within one month next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Martha one shilling of lawfull money of England to be paid her by my Executrix hereafter named within one month next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary one shilling of lawfull money of England to be paid her by my Executrix hereafter named within one month next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath all the parts of my messuages or Tenements backsides yards
outhouses edifices buildings and land thereunto belonging and premises with thappurtenacnes
thereunto belonging scituate lying and being in any parte of the County of Kent aforesaid
whether purchased by myselfe onely or my nowe wife Martha a ioynt purchaser unto my wife Martha forever
whome I make and ordaine my full and sole Executrix of this my last will and
Testament desiring her to perforyme the same according to my true intent and meaning
In Witnes whereof I the said Thomas Cooke have hereunto sett my hand and seale the eight
and twentieth day of August Anno Dini 1669 and in the one and Seventeenth yeare of the
raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the second now King over England etc.
Thomas Cooke his marke
Bartholomew Quested Senr. (One assumes this is the Witness)
Probatum fuit: 26th die Octobris 1672.
Notes:
Thomas Cooke was christened 25th Jun 1609, s. of William at Minster in Thanet.
31st Oct 1633 Thomas Cooke m. Martha Covell at Minster in Thanet.
Their children (all christened at All Saints, Birchington):
Those who died:
Alice 12 Oct 1635 (Bu: 8 Aug 1637); Robert 9 Jul 1637 (Bu: 12 Oct 1640); Elizabeth 13 Nov 1642
(Bu: 20 Sep 1663); Martha 25 Mar 1645 (Bu: 16 Apr 1650);
Those children who survived:
Jane 14 Feb 1647; Alice 20 Sep 1649; Martha 2 Mar 1652; Mary 27 Jan 1655.
Jane Cook, Sp., 17, d. of Thomas Cook, Husbandman of Birchington married Henry Gray, 22,
Joiner of Birchington at Monkton on 31 Dec 1663. She appears to be dead before 11th Jan 1687.
Alice Cook married John Mackney 4 Aug 1678 at Birchington;
Martha Cook married Thomas Griggs 23 Dec 1677 at Birchington;
Mary Cook, Sp. married Valentine Garrett, Ba., both of Birchington, at St. Andrew, Canterbury by Licence on 30 Apr 1685.
Thomas Cooke was buried at Birchington on 8 May 1670.
Martha Cooke was buried at Birchington on 5 February 1688/9.
PRC 32/55/389 Will of Martha Cooke, Widow of Thomas, Birchington, dated 11 Jan 1686/7 and Proved 28 Dec 1689
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 1st Feb 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.
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