Holmes Will 1587

Will of Nicholas Holmes

of Brookland, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/46/394a
Submitted by Shelagh Mason

In the name of God Amen
I Nycholas Holmes of Brouckland [Brookland] in the countie of Kent sicke of bodie but of good and perfecte remembrannce thankes be God make and ordeyne this my present testament conteyning therein my last will in manner and fowrme [form] following : That is to saye
First I comend my sowle into the handes of Allmightie God my maker and creator by the medyation [mediation] of Jesus Christ my redeemer by whose deathe and bytter passion I stedfastlie [steadfastly] truste to bee saved and my bodye I yealde to the Earthe to bee buryed in the churchyarde of Broukland (sic) aforesaide at the discrecon of my executors

Item I give and bequeathe Wyllyam my sonne the sume of sixe pounds thirteene shillinges fower pence to bee paide unto him within one halfe yeare next after my decease yf the said Willyam shall then bee lyving

And as touching the disposition of my moveable gooddes [goods] howsholde stuffe utensills corne and other my gooddes this is my last will and testament
And I give and bequeathe them to Agnes my wife and to her executors for and in consideration that shee or her executors shall faithfullie paye unto the Wyllyam my sonne the said sume of sixe pownds thirteen shillinges fower pence wthin [within] the tyme appoynted in forme abovesaide

Item my will and mynde is that the saide Agnes shall have the putting fourthe of the saide Willyam my soonne to be kept : yf shee shall refuse to keepe him and shee to have all suche somme or sommes of money as shee can save in the putting foorthe of my saide soonne Wyllyam yf hee shall fortune to decease this present life before hee shall come to suche yeares of disposition that hee can buye or sell wth moneye and well use yt or ells [else] the age of sixteene yeares, and the saide Agnes to be my executor

Provided allwaies yf shee shall refuse to prove this my present will and will not prove proove yt then my will and mynde is that all suche gooddes as I have given to her Thomas Mooryce shall have and hee to proove this my will and testament and to my soon Wyllyam sixe powndes thirteene shillinges fowre pence in fowrme abovesaide And the banyfit [benefit] of the putting fowrthe of the said Wyllyam my soonne the said Thomas Morrys to have in manner and fowrme abovesaide

And I renounce all fourmer wylles [former wills] and this to stand for my laste will
In Wytnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale this fiftenthe of Aprill one thouand five hundred fowre scoure seaven [1587] the nyne and twentiethe of the raigne of owr /soveraigne Ladt Elizabethe nowe the Queene
Nicholas Holmes [his] marke

Read and subscribed in the presence of
Wyllyam Bowdell als.* Randall, Clarcke [Clerk] John Alberye Robarte Malborowyhe

Probatum fuit: tertio dei May anno dini [1587].

Notes:
* alias
Nycholas Holmes was buried 14th April 1587 at St. Augustine, Brookland.
Parish registers start at Brookland in 1558, but no sign of any children of Nicholas and Agnes Holmes being born in Kent or East Sussex; nor their marriage.

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 15th August 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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