Item I will to Marie Pope my daughter in lawe tenne shillinges in gold and to Hamon Watson Edward Watson and Mr. William Watson my sonnes in lawe each of theme tenne shillings in gold to be paid to each of them within one moneth next after my decease and yt will bye cost of such gold as I gave to be equallye devided betweene my fowre children and to be delivered and paid to them within one moneth next after my decease
Item I will to my daughter Marie [Holmes] the some of one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid by my executors within one yeare nexte after my decease unto Hamon Watson my sonne in lawe for the use of the said Marye the which Hamon I will and desire to keepe and bringe up the said Marie my daughter for the use and profitt of the same money and to paye the same hundred pounds unto thereat her age of eighteene yeares or daye of marriage which shall first happen But yf it happen the said Marye my daughter to dye before her age of eghteene yeares or daye of marriage then I will her hundred pounds above to her gyven shall remayne to my other three children or soe many of them as shalbe lyvinge at the time of the deathe of the said Marie
Item I will to John Franley my Brother in lawe Servante? the sume of fyve pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid to him by my executor within one yeare next after my decease
Item I will to Rose Abbotte my late servannte the sume of fortye shillinges to be paid within one yeare next after my decease
Item I will that my Executor shall suffer my late wyffes children Hamon Watson Edward Watson William Watson and Marye Pope to have all such moveable goods as I am bound to deliver them and yf any of the same goods be wantinge that he shall make all reparacons for the same to such children as shalbe lyving honestlye fitt by indifference? more
Item I will to the poore of the parishe of Chilham twentye shillinges to be gyven unto them at my buriall or within ne moneth after and lyke wise to the poore of the parishe of Woodchurch after sixentye shilinges to be distributed amongst them in like such as at Chilham
And I further will all my householde stuffe to be devided equallye betweene my said children
the residue of all my moveable goods and chattells my soable and legacyes beinge
well and faithfullye payed as my will and meaninge ys such shalbe
I whollye gyve and bequethe to Robte Holmes my eldest sonne which Robarte I ordeyne
and make Sole Executor of this my will and do make William Pauley overseer of the same
And as touching all my lands and tenements and hereditaments I will as followeth
fist I will that Debora my daughter shall have use of my tenement and lands in Apledoore one annuity or rent chardge of sixe pounds of lawfull money of England yearlie to be payed her by Roberte my sonne his heires or assignes during all the terme of her naturall life at two tymes or terms in the yeare that ys to say at the feaste of St. Michaell tharchangell and the first payment to be made at the feaste as aforesaid which shall next happen after my decease and if the same be not payed accordingle that then yt shalbe lawfull for the said Debora and her assignes to enter into the same tenement and lands and denye or any parte thereof and discharge for the same and such distresse taken for the same to use and discharge as lawe requireth
And I will yt the said tenements and lands in Apledoore aforesaid and all other my lands and tenements and hereditaments in the same parishe to Robarte Holmes my eldest sonne to have and to hold to him the said Robarte and theheires of his bodie lawfully begotten and forever
I will to the said Robarte my sonne and to the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotten all those my lands and hereditaments whatsoever lyeing and beinge in the Parisshe of Woodchurch and alsoe one tenement with the orchard and other thappurtenances to the same belonginge lyeinge and beinge in the parrishe of Boughton under the Bleane in the County aforesaid to have and to hold lyke wyse to the said Robarte and to the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotten
And yf it fortune the said Robte my sonne to die without issue of his bodie lawfullye begotten then I will all the lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever before gyven and bequethed to Robte my sonne shalbe wholey remayne to Thomas my sonne and to the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotton
And I will to Thomas Holmes my sonne all lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever lyeinge and beinge in the parrishe of Mersham in the Countye aforesaide to have and to hold the same lands tenements and hereditaments to the said Thomas Holmes and to the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotten and yf yt fortune him the same Thomas to dye without issue of his bodye lawfullye begotten then I will the same lands tenements and hereditaments gyven to the said Thomas shall wholie remayne to Robarte Holmes my sonne and to the heires of his bodye lawfullye begotten
And whereas my sonne Thomas ys yonngs and paable [too young and unable] to governe and guide himselfe and his estate by reason of his younge yeares I will that John and William Pauley, my overseers before named shall have the educacon and bringing upp of the said Thomas my sonne till his age of eighteene yeares yf he doe lyve soe longe and the disposinge of the lands and tenements thim hereby gyven and the receivinge of the isues and proffitts of the same to beinge upp the same Thomas whichal and yt that shall make a true and juste accompte to him at his age of eighteene yeares of the overplus of the proffitts of his lands yf any shalbe due allowances of his charge after they have done with his bringinge upp provided alwayes under this my will and meaninge that my executor shall have the firrste monies after my decease the some of fyve pounds by the yeare of the rent and profitts of the lands above gyven to Thomas my sonne towards the payement of my detts and chardges and better performinge of this my will
In Witness that this ys my will and true meaninge I have hereunto subscribed my name
within, my said hand in the presence of
Thomas Cobbes - John Maxted - William Pope - Thomas Holmes - Thomas Dobbs - John Richted - the marke of William Pope
Probatum fuit: Second die July 1612
Notes:
Thomas Holmes first married Elizabeth Carpenter in Woodchurch on 14th September 1585, Bachelor and mayden.
19 Feb 1587 C Thomas, s. of Thomas (and Elizabeth) Holmes (Bu. 3 May 1587)
10 Nov 1588 C Robert, s. of --- � ---
4 Oct 1590 C Elyzabeth, d. of --- � ---
28 Jan 1593 C Deborah, d. of --- � ---
8 Mar 1595 C Thomas, s. of --- � --- (Bu. 28 Mar. 1595)
22 Apr 1595 Bu Elizabeth, wife of Thomas
17 Aug 1600 C Thomas, s. of --- � --- (and of who?)
26 Jun 1603 C Mary, d. of --- � --- (and of who?)
Thomas may have married Elizabeth Sharpe in Ashford on 11th April 1597.
Thomas Holmes married Elizabeth Watson in Chilham on 15th April 1609 but died and is buried in Chilham on 20th October 1610, followed by Thomas on 8th May 1612. I do not know who his 2nd wife was (by whom he had children in 1600 and 1603).
Elizabeth Watson, Thomas�s 3rd? wife, was originally Elizabeth Maxted, who had married Thomas
Watson on 1st July 1579 at Chilham, having children:
21 May 1581: Thomas; 26 Sep 1585: Mary (Marie); 28 Apr 1588: Hamon; 13 Jun 1591: Edward;
17 Aug 1595: William.
Mary (Marie) Watson married William Pope 10 Oct 1608 at St. Mary Breadman, Canterbury.
Mary (Marie) Holmes, born 1603, married Richard Dallye 23 Feb 1623 at St. Mary, Chilham, aged 19 � so she would have come into her inheritance by then.
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