Item I give to the Poore of the same Parish the sume of twenty shillings to be distributed to them by mye Executor six moneths after my
death.
Item I give unto ANNE my Wife the House and Landes at Apledore with all the appurtenances which I purchased of my Brother JAMES
JEAKIN to be had and holden unto her during her naturall life she keeping the reppacons thereof in good sort.
And after her decease I give and devise the same unto NICHOLAS my Sonne and to his Heirs forever.
Also I give to the sayd NICHOLAS my Sonne my house and Land at Brodham in the Parish of Chilham with the appurtenances thereto belonging to
be had and holden to him to the sayd NICHOLAS my Sonne and to his Heirs forever
Also I give to the sayd NICHOLAS my Sonne and to his Heirs forever all that my parcell of Land lying in Petham in the County of Kent called
by the name of Flaxland which I purchased of EDWARD MITCHELL
All which my house and Land at Brodham with the appurtenances as also my said Land called Flaxland I will that my sayd Sonne NICHOLAS (whom of this my last Will and Testament I make and ordayne myne Executor) shall sell in convenient tyme for the best price that he may for and towards the payment of my Debts and the performing of this my Will in case my Personall Estate will not extend to the performance and payment thereof. And the rather for that I would not have him comme into debt for the same or unstock himselfe to his prejudice whom as a Father I chardge him to be advised by myne Overseers foreafter named of whom I am assured he shalbe well directed.
Item I give unto my said Wife one hundred pounds of lawfull money to be paid unto her within six months after my decease.
And also I give unto her so much of my househouldstuffe by her to be chosen as by reasonable men and indifferent shalbe valued at twenty
pounds.
Item I give and bequeath unto my Sonne JAMES one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be payd unto him at his age of three
and twenty yeares.
And also I give unto him all such Right and Title as I have or might have in the reversion of one house and Land lying in Upper Hardress
after the decease of ALICE RAYNOLD my Wifes Mother who hath promised to make it good unto him as I doubt not but shee will.
Item I give unto my Sonne AUGUSTINE one hundred pounds to be payd unto him at the age of four and twenty yeares.
Item I give unto my Sonne JOHN one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be payd unto him at his age of four and twenty yeares.
Item I give to my Daughter KATHERINE the sume of sixty pounds of lawfull money of England to be payd unto her at the age of one and
twenty yeares or Day of Marriage which shall first happen.
Item I give to my Daughter ANN the sume of fifty pounds of lawfull money of England to be payd unto her at the age of one and twenty
yeares or Day of Marriage which shall first happen.
And of this my last Will I make and intreat my loving friends Mr. WILLIAM CONNOR of Canterbury and EDWARD CROYDEN of the Parish of Thannington to be Overseers and for their paynes which I hope they will take to advise myne Executor (repaying unto them for their counsel) I give unto every of them the sum of thirteen shillings four pence which I will my said Sonne NICHOLAS whome as aforesaid I doe nominate my full and sole Executor shall pay unto them within one moneth after my decease.
And whereas I have by Deed indented bearing date the 12th Day of October in the Yeare of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord King James of England
the seaventeenth and of Scotland the three and fifteenth for and in the consideracon of a competent sume of money granted bargained sold
infeoffed and confirmed unto DANYEL NICHOLS of Kingstone in the County of Kent Clerk, JOHN PIERS one of the Aldermen of the Citty of
Canterbury, THOMAS BRANKER of the sayd Citty Linnen Draper, THOMAS ROADER of the sayd Citty Mercer, HENERY FRANCKLIN of Petham in the sayd
County Yeoman, JOHN HOMEWOOD of Stodmarsh in the sayd County Yeoman and JAMES HOMEWOOD of Ickham in the sayd County Yeoman all those three
peeces or parcells of Land arable and Wood with the appurtenances conteyning in the whole by estimation one and twenty acres of land whithar
more or lesse together lying and being in the Parish of Chartham aforesaid to the Land of ADAM HARRIS and the Kings Highway there toward
the East to the Land of the Deane and Chapter of Christchurch Canterbury and of JAMES LOVE towards the Southe to the Lande of EDWARD
AUSTIN and of the aforesaid JAMES LOVE towards the West and to the Land of One DENWOOD and of the Heires of SAMUELL LADD toward
the North and North East and nowe in the Tenance and occupation of mee the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD or my Assignes to have and to hold the said
three peeces or parcells of Land with the appurtenances unto the said DANYEL NICHOLS JOHN PIERS THOMAS BRANKER THOMAS ROADER HENERY FRANCKLIN
JOHN HOMEWOOD and JAMES HOMEWOOD their Heires and Assignes forever.
Uppon condicon yet not withstanding that yf the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD my Heires or Assignes doe or shalt at anytime or tymes hereafter at or
in the South Porch of the Parish Church of Chartham aforesaid well and truly content and pay or tender to be payd unto the sayd DANYEL NICHOLS
JOHN PIERS THOMAS BRANKER THOMAS ROADER HENERY FRANCKLIN JOHN HOMEWOOD and JAMES HOMEWOOD or any of them theire Heires or Assignes the sume of
twelve pence of lawfull English moneye And from thenceforth the same Indenture of Bargainne and Sale and Feoffment and every clause article
sentence therein and the tinery and seisine thereupon had and executed to be utterly voyd frustrate and of none effect.
And from thenceforth and at all and every tyme and tymes after yt shall and may be lawfull to and for me the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD myne Heires
and Assignes into the said three peeces or parcells of Land with the appurtenances wholly to wante and the same to have againe repossesse and
injoy as in myne and their former Estate Right Title and Interest anything in the same Indenture conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding.
And whereas since the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD in performance and accomplishment of the sayd condicon have the 12th Day of Aprill in this present yeare tendered twelve pence of lawfull money of England unto HENERY FRANCKLIN one of the sayd Feoffes to the end to invest the Estate of the said three parcells of Land by my present Will, Now I the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD doe devise the said three parcells of Land to my sayd Sonne NICHOLAS HOMEWOOD and his Heires forever to the intent that he the sayd NICHOLAS shall make sale in convenient tyme after my death. And with the money thereof coming shall pay and dischardge my Debts Legacyes and Funerall Expenses.
And though for want of observing of some one circumstance in Lawe the sayd Lands should not be sufficiently invested in mee the sayd AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD and myne Heires and so by that means this my Will at the Comon Lawe might perhaps not take that effect that I intend yet I doe herby publish and declare my true intent and meaning to be that my sayd Sonne NICHOLAS and my sayd Feoffes shall make an Estate in the Premisses over to such person and persons as shall bargaine for the same with my Sonne NICHOLAS to the intent aforesaid as fully and wholy as I myself had beene actually seised in the Principle of the same at the tyme of my death.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto vizt this 6th sheete of paper (my Will being conteyned in six sheets) set my name with my own Hand and affixed my Seale the Day and Yeare above written. AUSTEN HOMEWOOD
Published read subscribed and sealed in the presence of us
WILLIAM SOMMER - GREGORY WATT of Apledore by his Marke - SOLOMAN DENE Servant to the Testator by his Marke
Memorandum That upon the 17th Day of March 1622
the said AUGUSTINE HOMEWOOD caused his Sonne JAMES his Legacy of one hundred and twenty poundes
to be made but an hundred pounds and to be payd at his age of twenty three yeares.
And his Sonne JOHNs Legacy to be payd at twenty four yeares of age which was before payable at his age of twenty one yeares.
And tenne poundes of his Daughter KATHERINES Legacy to be struck out.
And his Daughter ANNs Legacy of sixty poundes to be made but tenne poundes
Which done he published the same his Will so revoked in all poynts to be his last Will and Testament Whereof he had formerlie subscribed his
name and set his Seale in six sheets of paper.
Witnesses hereunto WILLIAM SOMMER - EDMUND SEAVE - JAMES HOMEWOOD
Probate 1623
Austen Homwood was buried 24 March 1622/3 at Chartham.
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