Dunkin Will 1715

Will of Edward Dunkin

of Benenden, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/83/3a
Submitted by James Canney

In the Name of God Amen the Twenty Eight day of January in the Year of our Lord 1714[/15]
I Edward Dunkin of Bennenden in the County of Kent Yeoman being Sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory (thanks be given unto God therefore) Calling unto mind the Mortality of my body and knowing that it is Appointed for all men to die once do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament (that is to say)
Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I Comend it to the Earth to be buried in Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God, and as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this Life I give and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form

Imprimis I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Edward Dunkin the Sume of Twenty Shillings of lawfull money to be paid him by my Executor when he Attains to the Age of Twenty one Years
Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Elizabeth Dunkin the Sume of Twenty Shillings of lawfull money to be paid her by my Executor when she attains to the Age of Twenty one Years
Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Catherine Dunkin the Sume of Twenty Shillings of lawfull money to be paid her by my Executor when she attains to the Age of Twenty one Years

Item I give and bequeath to Dorothy Dunkin my dearly beloved Wife whom I likewise Constitute make and ordain my only and Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament all and Singular my Goods and Chattells whatsoever to be by her peaceably Enjoyed my debts being fully paid

And further my Will and meaning is that in Case my Wife Dorothy should at any time hereafter Marrie and relinquish her Widowhood, that then my aforesaid Goods and Chattells shall be equally divided in four Equal Parts according as the Inventory of my Goods and Chattells shall Amount to, my debts and Funeral Expences being first satisfied, that then my Will and mind is that my Wife and Son and two Daughters shall have each of them one equal portion of my said Goods and Chattells before mentioned to be paid to my Son and two Daughters by their Mother that is their three parts and the other part to remain to her self which three parts my Executor shall pay according as my Son and two Daughters shall come to the age of Twenty one Years

But if my said Executor do remaine a Widow by not Contracting Marriage with any other at any time that then my said Executor shall quietly and peaceably Enjoy all my said Goods and Chattells during the time of her naturall Life paying my debts and Legacies abovementioned

And I do hereby Utterly disallow revoke and disanull all and every other former Wills and Testaments whatsoever ratyfieing and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and Year above written
the Mark of Edward Dunkin
Signed Sealed and Published in the prsence of us prsent:
John Cheesman; John Pellat
Examined by me Geo: Plomer N. Pub:./ [Notary Public]

Probatum fuit: 3rd May 1715

Notes:
5th May 1692 Edward DUNKIN of Tenterden, co. Kent, & Dorothy FINCH, of the same (place), Maiden. Sureties: said E.D. [Edward Dunkin] and John Swift of Peasmarsh [Sussex]. [Archdeaconry of Lewes Marriage Licences]

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 15th May 2022

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