Fordred Will 1575

Will of John Fordred

of Elmsted, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/42/182
Submitted by Margaret Glenn

In the name of God Amen, the xxjth [21st] day of Aprill in the xvijth yeare of the Raigne of our Sovraigne Ladye Elizabeth by the grace of God Quene of yngland Fraunce & Ireland, defender of the Feithe &c.
I John Fordride of Elmested in the countie of Kent, Yoman being sicke in bodie but of good and pfitt [perfect] memorie (thanks be to God) Do make and ordeyne tis my p[rese]nte Testament and last will in manner and forme following
First I bequethe my soule to allmightie God and my bodie to be buried in the churche yarde of Elmested aforesaid

Item I will my sonne Thomas shall have my Indenture leas(e), Interest, and terme of yeares unexpired of one leas(e) of the demise and gr[a]nte of John Culpeper Esquier
Item I give to Thomas my sonn my greate Brasse pott
Item I will my sonn Thomas shall have my greate brasse kettle
Item I give unto my sonn Thomas my Chuerne
Item I give unto my sonn Thomas my best Jerkin
Item I give unto my sonn Thomas a paier of sheetes and a paier of blanckettes And a transaine

Item I give unto Margarett my dawghter Five poundes to be paid at her day of mariage or at the age of twentie yeares which day doth first come
Item I give unto Margarett my dawghter my lesser Brasse pott

Item I give unto Thomas Cooke my best coate
Item I give unto Wyllyam Wyboure my frice? coate
Item I give unto Humfrye Pages children a vjd unto either of them
Item I give unto Thomas Cookes children a vjd unto either of them
Item I give unto my sonn John Fordrides children a vjd unto either of them
Item I give unto Jone Noble & Alice Noble a vjd unto either of them
Item I give unto Leonarde Spryes children a xijd
Item I give unto my goddawghter children unto either of them a iiijd

The residewe of all my moveable goodes not bequethed wthin my howse and whereowte my howse I give unto Margerye my wiffe and to hir heiers for ever

This is the last will of me the said John Fordrede made and bye me psnally [personally] declared the day and yeare above written towching the dispostion of certayne of my goods not bequethed

First I give unto Margerye my wiffe two acres and a half of wheat nowe growing upon the ground
Item I give unto Thomas Cooke half one acre of Wheate
Item I give unto Thomas Fordride my sonn eighte wethers, whome I ordeyne and make my sole Executor to see my legacies discharged and my debtes paied

Item I make Humfrye Page and Thomas Noble oversears to see this my last will & Testament fethfully p[er]formed and kepte
Item I geve unto Humfrye Page and Thomas Noble a xijd unto either of them for the[i]r paines Anye thinge to the contrarie in any wise not w[i]th standing

To this Witnesseth: Edward Goodale; Humfrye Page of Elmested; Thomas Noble of Aldington.
Concordat originalis

Probatum fuit: 30th June 1575

Notes:
John Fordred was buryed the viijth day of May [1575] at St. James the Great, Elmsted (from the original parish register).
Thomas Cooke an aged man was buried at Elmsted 28th February 1583/84.
Thomas Cooke had married an Elisabeth Fordred 29th January 1548 at Elmsted.
10th August 1574 Leonard Sprye married Jone Fordred, at St. Mary, Stelling Minnis.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 15th March 2022

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