Item I give Edmund my son thirty pounds of lawfull Englishe monye
Item I give & bequethe to Henry Gibbes my sonne thirty pounds of like lawfull monye
Item I give and bequeth unto Stephen Gibbes my sonne twenty pounds of like lawfull money,
all which somes by me given I will shall be paid by mine executor out of fowerscore pounds w[hi]ch William Gibbes the sonne of my sonne John
Gibbes deceased standeth bound by his bond & obligatory to be paid to my executor or assignes at such tyme as by the
same bonde my executor shall receave the same, or within one moneth next after the resaite [receipt] thereof
Item I will and my minde is that all such houshold stuffe as at any time heretofore was mine & now is in the custodye of any of my said sonnes or in the possession of William Gibbes the sonne of my sonne John Gibbes that the same shalbe & remaine to there uses for ever
And all the residue of my goods & wearing apparrell my funerall performed, I give & bequeth to Stephen Gibbes my sayde sonne for ever, whome I make and ordaine to be the executor of this my prsente testament & last will
In Wittnes hereof I have sett my hand & seale in the prsence of
Ambrose Ward; Lawrence Bate; Bartholomew Fawkner
Probatum fuit: 31st May 1599
Notes: The children of William Gibbes baptised at Elmstone are: Henry 7 Dec 1558; Stephen 17 Dec 1562; John 17 Dec 1578.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 28th February 2023
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