Item I will have vj masses at my buriall, sixe att my monthe Day, and as my Executors will att my yere Day
Item I geve and bequeith to Pleasannce Austen my daughter xvj platters of the olde fasshon viij pewter disshes and vij platters of pewter of Silver fasshon two chargers thre potengers vij Sawters iiij salt sellars one quarte pott and two bunkens two lardes of latton thre basons of latton & xij candlesticks a chafinge dishe A chaffer a latton mortar wth a pestell vj brasse pottes vj kettells v pannes one Frying pan a dryping panne iij espittes iij clappens one Fetherbedde iij mattrasses vij bolstars x payre of underclothes vj coverlett iij payre of blanketts thre pillowes thre pollowe beeres xxiij p of sheates [sheets] one spytt iij quysshes ? my great chistes iiij orlifle? & Setes wtall [withall] that is in them mye gownes ij vyolett bustells & a worsted kirtell two red peticotes a Counter? table two hanging bedds thre paynted clothes iiij bottells my trasshe ij balles one chaire A chestepresse ij moote? iij ywid ? bayle two new formes a Ringe ij willinge pailes iij Ale stands one standing Cuppe two drinking Cuppes ij kyne all my aputtery [poultry] wth my geese
Also I geve and bequeath to Elizabeth Huffham one bullocke ij payre of sheates a bras pott a ketle one Stuppen a candlstick two platters a pewter dishe and a coverlett & a saewu? all to be delyverd att the daye of her mariage
Also I geve and bequeath to Richard Best one payre of Sheates one Blacke seamed Sheate two black Seamed pillowes beeses and a dimysent girdle & a platter and a pewtr disshe if he may unto my executors mynde
Item I geve and bequeath to Stephen Copday and to Salomon Forte and to Salomon Forman every one of them viijd
Item I geve and bequeath to Margaret Kempe one chryinsyne [christening?] kirtell
Item I geve and bequeath to the thre Children of Clement Kempe a vjs and to their mother one vyolett gowne
The Residue of all my goodes not geven & unbequeathed I geve wholy to Pleasannce my daughter
And of this my last will I ordeyne myne her myn Executrix [Pleasance Kempe]
And I will John Kempe my son to be Oversear of this my will and he to have for his labours xjs
Witnesses John Austen Thomas Goodinge and John Blande present
Probatum fuit: 10th July 1546
Notes:
Elizabeth Kempe�s burial is given as 9th February 1547 at Holy Innocents, Adisham, Kent.
There is no reference to any of the other Kempe�s mentioned in her Will at this parish.
Husband Thomas Kempe does not appear to have left a Will.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 18th March 2019. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.
Return to Kent GenealogyWill of Elizabeth Kempe