Cook Will 1706
Will of Thomas Cooke
of Otterden, Kent
Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 32/58/73b
Submitted by Shelagh Mason
In the name of God Amen The Tenth day of Aprill [1694]
I Thomas Cooke of Otterden being sick in body, but of good and perfect memory, thanks be to Almighty
God, and calling to remembrance the uncertaine estate of this transotory life, and that all flesh must yield
unto death, when it shall please God to call, do make constitute ordaine and declare this my last will and
Testament in manner and forme following, revoaking & annulling by these p�sents [presents] all and
every Testament and Testaments, Will & Wills heretofore by me made & declared either by word or
writing, and this is to be taken for my last will and Testament and one other
And first being penitent and sorry from the bottom of my heart for my Sins past, most humbly desiring
forgiveness for the same I give and comitt my soule unto Almighty God my Saviour and Redeemer in
whom & by the meritts of Jesus Christ I trust & believe assuredly to be saved, & to have full remission
and forgiveness of all my sins, and that my soule with my body at the generall day of resurrection shall
rise again with ioy [joy] and inherit the kingdom of heaven, prepared for his elect and chosen, and my
body to be decently interred where it shall please my Executrix hereafter named to appoint
And now for the setling of my temporall estate, and such goods chattels and debts as it hath pleased God
to order above my deserts, to bestow upon me I do order give and dispose the same in manner and forme following (that is to say)
I will that all those debtes & duties of I owe in right or conscience to any manner of person or persons
whatsoever shall be well and truely contented and paid, or ordained to be paid within convenient time
after my decease by my Executrix hereafter named
I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Mary Cooke all my goods chattels debts and all the estate
whatsoever in my posession or that I am in any wise intitled unto and for the more effectual execucon
hereof I do constitute nominate make and appoint her my said beloved Wife Mary Cooke sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale this tenth day of Aprill one thousand six hundred ninety and four
Thomas Cooke
Signed sealed and published in the p�sence [presence] of
John St. John L.D.D. Charles Payne Thomas Willson
Probatum fuit: decimo sexto (16th) die July 1706
Notes:
Thomas Cooke, Householder, was buried at St. Lawrence, Otterden, Kent on 3rd July 1706.
Thomas Cooke Ba., 32, Husbandman married to Mary Gascoigne, 29, Sp. � both otp., on 23rd Feb 1660, at
St. Lawrence, Otterden. There appear to be no children of this marriage.
Thomas Cooke was christened in nearby Stalisfield on 12th October 1628, s. of Gervase Cooke, with
siblings: Anne, Elizabeth and Edward.
Gervase Cook had married Elisabeth Greenfield at St. Mary, Eastling, Kent on 27th July 1623.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 5th July 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.
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