Inprimis I give and devise unto my deare and loveing wife Anne all that my messuage or tenement with the lands, tenem[en]ts, hereditaments and appurt[enance]s thereunto belonging lying and being in the Parish of Minster in the Isle of Sheppey in the said County of Kent, now or late in the tenure or occupation of John Jackson or of his undertenant or undertenants To have and to hold the said messuage or Tenement with the lands, tenements, hereditaments and appurts. foresaid thereunto belongng unto her my said wife Anne, her heires and Assignes to the onely proper use and behoofe of her my said wife Anne and of her heires and assignes for ever
Item I give and bequeath unto my very loveing Sister Margarett Royle, widow the sume of fifty pounds of lawfull money be paid unto
her by my Executrix hereinafter mentioned within the space of six months next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my neice Elizabeth King, Spinster the sume of one hundred pounds of like lawfull money to be alsoe
paid unto her within the space of one yeare next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my cozin Sara Sallaway, widow the sume of ten pounds of like lawfull money to be alsoe paid unto her
within ten dayes next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my respected Freind Sr. Thomas Colepeper, Baronet one ring of the value of twenty shillings to weare
in remembrance of me
Item I give & bequeath unto my good Freind Mr. James Blake of St. James, Westminster the sume of ten pounds of like lawfull money
for mourning to be paid within ten dayes next after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto the persons following such mourning as my Executrix shall appoint or thinke convenient, vizt.
my said Sister Margaret Royle
my brother and sister in law Mr. Henry Morgan and Margarett his wife
my Sisters Elizabeth Gunton and Francis King widow
my said niece Elizabeth King
my Aunt the Lady Margarett Pett
and Richard Bennett an infant now and for some time kept by my said Sister Elizabeth Gunton
Item I give and bequeath unto my said brother Henry Morgan for and to the use and benefitt of his son Henry (my Godsone) the sume of five pounds of like lawfull money to be alsoe paid within three months next after my decease
Item all the rest and residue of my personall estate (after my legacies, Funerall charges and probate of this my will paid and satisfied) I give and bequeath unto her my said wife Anne whome I doe hereby make, constitute and ordeyne full and sole Executrix of this my present last Will and Testament hereby revoakeing. annulling & makeing void all former wills or testaments by me att any time heretofore made or published, hereby declareing these presentes only to be and conteyne my last will and testament
In Wittnesse whereof I the said Charles Crosse the Testator have to this my present last will and Testament contained in two sheets of
paper, to each sheete thereof sett my hand and seale the eight day of February in the Yeare of Ourr Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred
Ninety and Seaven
Cha Crosse
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Charles Crosse the Testator as and for his last Will
and Testament in the presence of us whoe subscribed our names as witnesses hereunto in the presence of him the said Testator
Fra Constable - Robt. Curtis? Junr - Wm. Bright - Jo. Walsall
Probatum fuit: [Latin] 4th July 1698
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason, 9th December 2021
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