Item I give unto my godsonne John Hope sonne of Frederick Hope of Canterbury tenne pounds to be paid him by my Executor hereafter named at his age of one and twentie yeares
Item I give and bequeathe unto Isaac Brattle son of James Brattle late of Ashford aforesaid tenn pounds to be paid unto him in twelve monethes after my decease by my Executor
Item I give unto Lidia Tillman the daughter of Samuell Tillman of Ashford deceased tenn pounds to bee paid unto her in 12 months after my decease by my Executor
Item I give and bequeath unto the five children of my kinsman Stephen Clarke of Godmersham that is to say unto Robert Clarke Stephen Clarke Henry Clarke Thomas Clarke and Elizabeth Clarke Five pounds apiece to bee paid unto them that shall attaine there age of one and twenty yeares in twelve monethes after my decease and unto the rest at the age of one and twentie yeares by my executor
Item I give unto Mary Brickenden of Wye widdow twentie shillings to be payd to her one yeare after my death by my executor
Item I give unto the poore of the parish where it shall please God I shall depart this naturall life in
forty shillings to bee paid in two monethes after my death by my executor into the Churchwardens
and Overseers and by them to be distributed as they shall thinke fit amongst the said poore people
Item I give and bequeath unto the minister that shall preech my funerall sermon twenty shillings to
bee paid within twelve moneth after my decease unto him by my said Executor
Item I make and ordaine Frederick Hope of Canterbury Woolcomber my whole and sole Executor of
this my Last will and Testament and give him full and absolute power for to sell my house and Land
lyeing and being in Wye in the said County of Kent within one yeare after my decease Also I give all
the household stuffe goods and chattells bills bonds and money whatsoever he paying my debts and
Legacies Funerall chardges and the proveing of my said will and Testament
And I doe hereby renounce and revoke all other will or wills by mee heretofore made and doe ratifie
and confirme this to be my Last will and Testament
Item I doe request and appoint John Sherwood of Ashford in the said County of Kent Clothier to be my Overseer of this my said will and Testament to see the same executed and fullfilled and to be aideing and assissting my Executor and I will unto him for his paines Twentie shillings to be paid unto him by my Executor within two moneths after my decease
In Witness unto this my Last Will and Testament I sett hereunto my hand and seale dated this fourth day of September in the twentie fifth yeare of the raigne of Charles the second by the grace of God King of England and soe forth and in the yeare of our Lord Christ One thousand Six hundred and Seavanty and three - Susan Cooke
Signed sealed and published to be my last will and Testament in the presence of
Elizabeth Sherwood by her marke - John Sherwood - Hugh Turner - Mary Sherwood
Probatum fuit Quatro die Decembris A.D. 1678
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