First after the decease of Mary my loving Wife I give and devise unto Thomas Hickmott my Son and to his Heirs forever All that Messuage or Tenement and about Ten Acres of Land thereunto belonging with the appurtenances wherein I now dwell To hold the same to my said son Thomas Hickmott his Heirs and Assigns forever.
Item I give and devise All that my Messuage or Tenement commonly called or known by the Name of Kettles with all those severall pieces or parcells
of Land thereunto belonging or appertaining with the appurtenances situate in Horsemonden aforesaid and Lamberhurst or one of them containing by
Estimation Eighty Acres more or less unto my son John Hickmott and his Heirs and Assigns forever
subject nevertheless to and charges and hereby made chargeable with the true and just payment of the severall Legacies or Sums of money hereinafter
mentioned that is to say
the Sum of One hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of Great Britain unto Mary my Daughter now Wife of Henry Styles of Horsemonden
aforesaid Husbandmen within Eighteen Months next after my decease
unto Elizabeth my Daughter the like Sum of One Hundred pounds of like money at her respective Age of One and Twenty years
And unto the said Thomas Hickmott my said Son the Sum of fifty pounds of like money within Six Months next after my Decease.
Item I give and devise unto Leonard Hickmott my Son All that my Messuage or Tenement called Hodges al[ia]s Terry Merry with those
severall pieces or parcells of Land thereto belonging or appertaining containing by Estimation Twenty Acres more or less with the appurtenances
To hold the same to the said Leonard Hickmott and his Heirs and Assigns forever
subject nevertheless to and charges and hereby made chargeable with the true and just payment of the Sum of fifty pounds of
Good and lawfull money of Great Britain unto the said Thomas Hickmott my Son within six Months next after my Decease
nevertheless my Will and Mind is and I doe hereby declare my Will and mind to be that in case my said sons John and Leonard Hickmott shall and doe (within such time as herein is before limited for payment for payment of their said respective Sums of fifty pounds to my said Son Thomas) make doe acknowledge execute and suffer all such lawfull and reasonable Releases Deliveryances and Assurances whatsoever as shall be advised or thought fitt to and for the absolute conveying releasing estating and assuring the severall and respective Rights Titles Interests and Claimes of them the said John Hickmott and Leonard Hickmott and of their severall Heirs and Assigns which they or either of them may or can respectively have or claim after the decease of Mary my said Wife of in and to the said Messuage or Tenement and Lands with the appurtenances herein before mentioned and wherein I now dwell unto and upon the said Thomas Hickmott my said Son and his Heirs forever according to the Intent and true Meaning of this my Will that then they and either of them and their respective Lands and Tenements devised to them as aforesaid shall be freed acquitted and discharged of and from the payment of the said respective Sums of fifty pounds unto my said Son Thomas limited to be paid as aforesaid.
Item I give unto Jane my Daughter the Sum of One Hundred pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain to be paid unto her by my said Executors
at her Age of One and twenty years.
Item I give unto William Hickmott my Son one Shilling of lawfull money of England.
Item I give and devise unto Mary my said Wife for and during her naturall life All those three pieces or parcells of Land lying near Pullens Hill
containing about Eleven Acres commonly called the great Parkefield the little Parkefield and the Three Acre field with the appurtenances
And from and after the Decease of my said Wife I give and devise the same three pieces of Land with the appurtenances
to the said Thomas Hickmott my Son and to his Heirs and Assigns forever.
Item I give and devise unto Ann my Daughter now Wife of John Martin of Brenchley in the said County Blacksmith One Annuity or yearly Rent
charge of Five pounds per Annum to be issuing and going out of those two pieces or parcells of Land containing about Twelve Acres lying at Pullens
Hill called Gaskoins Field and the Great Tutchburys to be paid unto my said Daughter Anne for and during her natural Life
and from and after the Decease of my said Daughter Ann I give the said Annuity unto the issue of the Body of my said Daughter Ann lawfully begotten
or lo begotten and their Heirs and Assigns for ever
to be paid quarterly at the four most usual Feasts or Days of payment in the year (that is to say) The Feasts of the Nativity of our Lord and
Saviour the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary St John the Baptist and St Michael the Archangel by equal portions the first payment
thereof to begin and to be made at the next of the said Feasts as shall first and next happen after my Decease
And in Default of such Issue of my said Daughter Ann as aforesaid I give the said Annuity to be paid in manner aforesaid unto the surviving Sisters
my other Daughters equally and their Heirs and Assigns forever.
Item I give and devise the said two pieces of Land called Gaskoins Field and the Great Tutchburys (subject to and charged with the said Annuity as aforesaid) unto my said two Sons Thomas Hickmott and John Hickmott jointly and to their Heirs for ever
And I do hereby make and declare my said Sons Thomas and John Hickmott joint Executors to this my Will
And for the enabling my said Executors to make due payments and satisfaction of all my just debts my Legacies and Funerall and other
Expenses together with all and singular my Goods Chattles and personall Estate whatsoever I give bequeath and devise all those three pieces of Land
with the appurtenances containing about Ten Acres lying on the other side of the way over against my dwelling House unto my said two sons
Thomas and John Hickmott and their Heirs hereby intending that the remainder thereof after my said Debts Legacies Funerall and other Expenses are
paid and satisfied shall be equally divided between them my said two Executors
And I do hereby revoke and make void all former Will and Wills whatsoever and declare this to be my only last Will and Testament and none other
In Witness whereof I have hereunto this my last Will contained in three sheets of paper set my hand and seal (that is to say) to the first and
second sheet I have set my hand and to the third and last sheet have set my hand and seal the day and year above written
Thomas Hickmott
Sealed signed published and declared to be the only last Will and Testament of the said Thomas Hickmott the Testator in the presence of us who in
the said Testators presence have subscribed our Names as Witnesses hereto
Edward Osborne - Robert Seaten - Tho. Sibly
PROBATUM … 14th Oct 1712 to son Thomas.
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