Will of John Coveney

of Loose, Kent

To John Richardson 4 lq (?) of ---- good bredcorne
To Robert Rouse 1 bushell of the lyke corne
To Thomas Elfye 1 colvet of like corne
To Alex Tayler 1 colvet of the like corne
To Widow Warren (?) 1 colvet of lyke corne
To Widow Younge 1 colvet of the lyke corne

5 shillings to John Thorpe, my nephewe
I do geve & forgeve unto my syster Thorpe ---- bushelles of wheate for whiche she oweyth me
I geve unto every childe of Giles Downe 12d
5 shillings to Robert Cooper
12d to Grace Cooper
12d to Rachell Cooper
12d to Susan Cooper

To Mathewe Coveney my eldest sonne in full recompence & satisfaction of all suche profittes & yssues as I have received for hym of his part of one barne & one peace of medowe in Lynton, foure powndes of lawfull money of England to be paide unto hym within one yere after my deceasse

�5 to sonne William Coveney
6d to every childe of Thomas Steptowe
All my goods, & catalles & householde stuff utensilles within the house to Agnes, my wyef

The residue of all my goods & cattalles before not bequeathed, all my debtes & legacyes first paide & discharged I geve & bequethe unto all my children & the childe wherewith my wiefe is pregnant, indyfferentlie amongst them to be devided & shifted & to be paide unto them in manner & forme following, that is to say to the saide Mathewe, William & to Thomas Coveney my sonne & to Elizabeth my daughter & to every of them in the sixe yere after my deceasse
And to John Coveney, Edward Coveney & George Coveney my sonnes & to the childe wherewith my wiefe is pregnant & to every of them in the sixtenthe yere after my deceasse

I ordeyne & make the saide Agnes my wife my sole executrix of this present testament & last wyll
And I ordeyne Edwarde Cowcheman & William Joye my overseers and I geve to eche of them for ther paynes 20 shillings

Concernyng the order & disposicion of all my lands & tenements with thappurtenances in the paryshes of Lynton & Huntyngton alias Hunton in the Countie of Kent,

First whereas my brother William Coveney hathe bought of me all my part ---- & porcon that is to say the moytie or halfe of one mesuage, one barne & other houses thereunto belongyngyng, two gardens & two peaces of arable landes & pasture with thappurtenances conteynynge foure acres of lande lying & being in the parish of Huntyngton aforesaid some tyme Alexander Coveney my father & hathe fullie paide me therfore & as yet no assurance or conveyance therof to hym made, I wyll therfore geve � unto the said William Coveney, my brother (page torn)

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