Item I will and bequethe to the pore mens boxe of the Parishe of Rolvinden 20d, to be
payde w[i]thin one quarter of a yeare next ensuing and followinge after my decease.
Item I give to eyther of my godchildren 4d, that is to saye Robarte Hubbarde, Thomas
Potten, John Monke and Symon Monke, to be payde w[i]thin one quarter of a yeare nexte after
my decease.
Item I will and bequeathe to John Monke and to Symon Monke, sonnes to John Monke of
Bedinton, to eyther of them one pewter dyshe.
Item I will and bequethe also to the same John Monke, sonne of John Monke of
Bedynden, thre shillinges fowre pence of good and currante monye, to be payde to him at th�age
of eyghtene yeares.
Also I give and bequethe to Symon Monke, sonne of the aforenamed John Monke, thre
shillinges fowre pence of good and currante monye, to be payde to him at the age of eyghtene
yeares.
And if it fortune eyther of the aforesayde John Monke or Symon Monke do decease
before they come to the age of eyghtene yeares, then I will th�one to succede the other, to be his
heyre.
Item also I will and bequethe to Ales Fowell, wydowe of Nycolas Fowell of Rolvinden, fowre shillinges of good and currante monye, to be payde to her w[i]thin one yeare after my decease, that is every quarter of the yeare twelve pence.
All the Residue of my moveable goodes and cattelles, my debtes being payde and my bequethes discharged accordinge to this my will, I will and give to Johane Daye my wife, whome I make my sole Executrix of this my laste will.
Witnesses at the makinge hereof,
Richarde Penfoulde, Bartholomewe Norton, Stephen Waterman and Symon Lyngham, w[i]th other.
Probatum fuit Coram Nobis Thoma Lause Artium mag[ist]ro R[everendissi]mi in Xpo
p[at]ris etc Visitac[i]o[n]em suam ordinariam actualiter exercen[ti] unacu[m] aliis con[juncti]m et
di[visi]m l[egi]time deputat[o] et fulcit[o] xjmo die Julii Anno D[omi]ni 1569
Juramentis Richardi Penfolde et Simonis Lyngham testium etc
Ac app[ro]batum etc
Co[m]missumq[ue] est onus etc Johanne Rel[i]c[t]e executrici etc In debita Juris forma
iurat[e]
[This was proved before us, Thomas Lause, Master of Arts, lawfully deputed and founded
[capacity not specified] of the most Reverend father in Christ etc, actually exercising, together
with others, jointly and severally, his ordinary visitation, on the 11th day of July in the year of our
Lord 1569,
By the oaths of Richard Penfolde and Simon Lyngham, witnesses etc,
And approved etc,
And the burden etc was committed to Joan, the relict, the executrix etc, she having been
sworn in due form of law.]
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