Will of Nicholas Coveney

of Ash next Kingsdown, Kent

Item I give & bequeathe unto the Collectors of the parishe of Ashe and their Successors for ever one tenement with thappurtenances leased unto Thomas Thurnocke for certeye yeres to be bestowed with the profittes and commodities thereof to the use of the poore people of the sayed parishe of Ayshe yerelie for ever
10 shillings to be ymployed and bestowed to the use of the poor people of the parishe of All Saintes in Maydstone
5 shillings likewise to the poore people of the parishe of West Farleighe
Item I bequeath 6s 8d to hym that shall preach the Sermon on the daye of my Buriall

Item I give and bequeath unto Gedyon Wharton my best garment that I shalbe found to have at the tyme of my death
The rest of all my apparrell, I give and bequeath to the poore people of Ashe

Item I give and bequeath unto Robert Partridge my servaunte twoe Ewes or mother sheepe and 10 shillings to be payd ymmediatly after my decease
6s 8d to John Marshall my servaunte
20 shillings to Johane Weste my servaunte
6s 8d to Katherine Gore
5 shillings to the Collectors of the parishe of Meopham to be bestowed by them to the use of the poore people there

All the rest of my goods not bequeathed, I give unto Johane my wife, seeing my bodie buryed and my debts and Legaceys payed, whome I make my sole executrix of this my last will and testament

And Thomas Maxfield, parson of Ashe, to be my overseer

Concernyng my Landes and tenements
First I give and bequeath unto Johane my wife, my house where I dwell nowe in Aishe abovesaid, with a ll my Landes thereunto belonging, with thappurtenances, in as ample manner as I my selfe did occupie and enioye the same, during her naturall life.
And after her decease I give and bequeath my said house and Lands with thappurtenances unto the eldest sonne of William Coveney late of Yaldinge, deceased. And unto his heires for ever.

Item I give and bequeathe unto Johane my wife all that my tenement and Lande with thapppurtenances which I lately purchased of Robert Roffe to her and to her heires for ever.

Item I give unto John Gore, the sonne of Thomas Gore, the house which I boughte of his father with a garden and beckeside and other the appurtenances lying and being in Weeke streete in the parish of Maidestone, to hym and to his heires for ever

Item I give and bequeath unto Johane my wife one pece of meadowe ground called Giddes, lying and being in the parishe of Boxley, to her and her heires for ever

All the rest of my Landes and tenements, Barnes and houses set, lying and being in Maydstone aforesaid or elsewhere soever, not bequeathed, I give and grannte unto Johane my wife and unto her heires for ever, paying unto my sister Katherine Dickensonne the somme of �10 and unto Agnes Smithe her daughter, other �10 in like manner to be paied unto them within one whole yere next after my decease

Forgivinge and cleerelie acquiting over and besides all this my brother in lawe John Dickensonne of a debt of �25 due unto me upon specialties :

Making and oreyninge my sayd wife my sole executrix aswell of this my last will and testament concerning all my Landes and tenements as also executor of my last will above written concerning all my goods.
And likewise Thomas Maxfeild to be overseer of all, that all thinges may be done according to my minde

Finished under the hand and seale of me the sayd Nicholas Coveney, the daye and yere above written in the presence of Charles Johnson, Thomas Maxfeild parson there : Robert Wrighte

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