First I give unto the poore people of the p[ar]ishe wherein I dwell the sume of Thirteene shillings and
fowre pence to be distributed amongst them at the discretion of my executor
Item my will and minde is that my household stuffe within doores shall be equally parted & shifted * betweene Margaret my beloved wife
and my sonnes and daughters And my will and minde is that my said sones and daughters and every of them shall have and receive their said
porcons out of my said Household stuffe within one month after my death
Item I give unto my said wife one of my best kine
Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth the sume of Threescore six Thirteene shillings and fowre pence [£66 13s 4d] to be paid unto
her at her age of eighteene yeares or day of marriage which shall first happen
Also I give unto my other daughter Margaret the like sume of Threescore six Thirteene shillings and fowre pence to be paid unto her
at her like age of eighteene yeares or day of marriage which shall also first happen
And my will and minde is that the Survivor of them shall enjoy the others part
And if they shall both dye before they shall attaine unto their said ages of dayes of marriage Then my will is that their said porcons
shall return and Come unto my sonnes then liveing equally to be parted amongst them
Item I give unto my foresaid daughters and to their heires Ten acres of land lying togeather in the p[ar]ishe of St. John the Baptist in the Isle of Thannet in the County of Kent aforesaid now in the occupacon of one Alexander Fleete to come unto them at their like ages or daies of marriage which shall first happen, and my minde is that in the meane time the profitt coming by the said land shall be allowed unto them for and towards their maintenance and bringing upp
The residue of my goods not bequeathed my will and meaning is shall be sold by my execut[or] hereafter named for and towards the payment
of my debts and legacies and the overplus thereof to remaine to my sonnes
And I make and ordaine my Three sonnes executors of this my last will and testament
This is also the will and testament of mee the said Thomas Fleete as Concerning my Lands Tenements revrcons [reversions] and hereditaments whatsoever in the said County of Kent or els where, That is to say in the foresaid p[ar]ishes of Cosmus and Damian of the Bleane and St. John the Baptist in the Isle of Thannet saveing the Ten acres of Land formerly given unto my daughters and their heires
Item I give unto my sonnes Thomas, William, Henry and John Fleete and to their heires my house and
land thereunto belonging called Updowne, lying in the said p[ar]ishe of St. John the Baptist now in the occupacon of Jeffery Grant
or his assignes
And also my house and lands thereunto belonging lying in the p[ar]ishe Cosmus and Damean of the Bleane aforesaid
lately purchased of one Colbrand equally to be parted and shifted amongst them as they and every of them shall attayne unto their
several age of one and Twenty yeares And that every of them in the mean time shall have and receave the yearely profitts of the said
Lands towards their maintenance and bringing up
Alwaies provided if my wife shall be with Childe, Then my meaning is that the said Childe shall have an equall part with his said brothers
out of my said lands in the foresaid p[ar]ishe of St. John the Baptist and Cosmus and Damean of the Bleane
And that if any one of them shall fortune to dye that the Survivors of them shall enjoy the part of him soe deceased
And if my said wife shall be with Childe of a daughter then my will and minde is that the said daughter
shall have the sume of one hundred pounds for her porcon to be paid unto her at her
age of Eighteene or day of marriage which shall first happen out of the Lands Tenements and
hereditaments given and bequeathed to my sonnes aforesaid
And if the mother of the said child being now my wife shall fortune to dye before the said maide Childe to be born shall come to her said
age of eighteene yeares or day of marriage, then my will and minde is that my foresaid sonnes shall allow unto
her yearly towards her maintenance and bringing up untill shee attaines her said age the sume of six
pounds thirteen shillings and fowre pence by the yeares (That is to say) Thomas and William Joynt executors of this my last will and
testament
In Witnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale yeoven [given?] the day and yeare first in these pr[e]sents menconed
Thomas Fleete
Signed sealed and published as his last will and Testament in the pr[e]sence of us
William Thwaits - Edward Turfett, No.P.
Item I give to my daughter Annis Fleete ten acres of land part of my lands lying to my farms in Thannet
adjoyning to the ten acres before willed to my daughter Elizabeth and my daughter Margaret
Provided this is my sonnes being executors doe not pay unto my daughters the sume of mon[e]y before willed them then I will unto them
ten acres more of my lands adjoyning to the same lands soe my meaning my daughters shall have thirty acres of land.
Exd.
Probatum fuit: [Latin] 23rd August 1633
Note: * Parted and shifted – an old way of saying equally divided between ......
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 12th February 2021
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