Gilbert Will 1741/2

Will of Thomas Gilbert

of Staplehurst, Kent

Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury Prob11/716
Submitted by Ros Dunning

In the Name of God Amen this Seventh Day of December in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the faith etc. and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred forty and one
I Thomas Gilbert of Staplehurst in the County of Kent Carpenter being of sound and perfect mind and memory (thanks be to Almighty God for the same) calling to mind the mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed for all Men once to Dye 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 Almighty God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in a decent Christian Burial nothing doubting that at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the might Power of God And as touching such Worldly Goods and Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life I do give demise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form

Item I do Give and Bequeath unto my Cousin Thomas Gilbert Son of my Brother Jordan Gilbert One hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawfull Money of Great Britain
Also One Feather Bed and Bolster four Feather Pillows two Blankets one Quilt Bedstead Curtains and Valence one brown Chest and the Linnen also the Silver Spoons and Money and all other things that shall be found in the said Chest which is now in the Possession of Hen Henham and John Beadle of East Parkham

Also I do desire my Executors hereafter named to Put the said One hundred and fifty Pounds out to the best Interest and benefit they can for the said Thomas Gilbert till he shall arrive at the full Age of Twenty and one Years
And if the said Thomas Gilbert Son of Jordan Gilbert die before he shall attain to the full Age of Twenty and one Years I do give and dispose of the said One hundred and fifty Pounds in the following manner and form
Item I Give and Bequeath unto Elizabeth Stone Daughter of Richard Stone of Meryworth Thirty Pound of like Money
Item I Give and Bequeath unto Elizabeth Stone Daughter of George Stone of West Packham Thirty Pounds of like Money
Item I Give and Bequeath unto Margaret Stone Daughter of Robert Stone of West Packham Twenty Pounds of like money
I Give and Bequeath unto William Stone Son of the aforesaid Robert Stone Twenty Pounds of like money
Item I Give and Bequeath unto Ann Sherlock Wife of John Fryman of East Packham aforesaid Thirty Pounds of like Money
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Brother Jordan Gilbert Twenty pounds of like money
which legacies I do will and desire to be paid within Twelve Months next after the decease of the aforesaid Thomas Gilbert son of Jordan Gilbert by my Executors hereafter named.

Item I give and bequeath unto my Brother Jordan Gilbert Fifty Pounds of like money to pay my Burial Expences and all other Charges now in my Illness And I do hereby require to be carried to East Packham to be Buried

Item I do make and Ordain Mr James Love Gent of Staplehurst and Thomas Viney Butcher of the Parish aforesaid Executors in Trust of this my last Will and Testament
And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies Bequests and Executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above Written Thomas Gilbert
(Attestation Clause)
John Parsons _ Elizabeth Richerson her Mark

Proved at London 13 February 1741/2 by oath of Thomas Viney, power reserved for James Love.

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