Cooke Will 1717

Will of John Cook

of Canterbury, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC 17/82/496a
Submitted by Shelagh Mason
In the name of God Amen the Twelveth day of October 1717
I John Cook of the parish of the blessed Mary of Northgate of the City of Canterbury Labourer being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto God do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament (That is to say)
First I recommend my Soule unto the hands of God and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent burial at the Discretion of my Executrix

As concerning Such Worldly Estate it hath pleased God to bless me with I give demise and dispose of the Same wholly only and solely unto Susan my Dearly beloved wife as well the lease or Leases I hold of St. John�s Hospitall as also all my household Goods and moveable effects together with my apparell of Linnen and woollen and whatsoever else I have to be by her my Dearly beloved wife freely possessed and enjoyed whom I likewise Constitute make and ordain my Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament

And I do hereby utterly disallow and disanull all and every other Wills and Bequests by me in any ways before named Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seale the day and yeare above written
John Cook his mark
Signed Sealed Published pronounced and Declared by the said John Cook as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers
Peter Hardwen - Thomas Clout - John Quintin
Examined by me Geo : Plomer Notary Public

Probatum fuit: 18th October 1717

Notes:
John Cook married Susan Capon 25th October 1702 at St. Mary Northgate, Canterbury.
John is buried there on 15th October 1717, but I cannot find out what happened to Susan.
They had one child that I can find: a son John Cook c. 13th July 1712 at St. Mary Northgate, but he died and is buried there on 22nd February 1713.
John Cook (of this Will) may be the son of John Cook and Elizabeth Godfrey, who were married at St. Mary Northgate in 1678.


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