Will of Richard Kempe

of Hothfield, Kent

In the name of god amen the xijth day of May, in the yeare of our Lord god A thousand fyve hundrethe thre score & fower [1564] the sixt yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Ladye Quene Elizabethe
I Rychard Kempe of the parishe of Hothefelde [Hothfield] in the county of kent, being of hole mynd and perfect memory praised be all mightye god do make and ordeyne this my present testament and last will in manner and forme followinge
First I comend my Soule into the hands of all mightye god my maker who hathe purysed? in his greate mercy through his sonne Jesu Christe by whose merytts I hope to be saved and my bodye to the earthe

First I geve to the poore mens box of the parishe of hothefelde tenne shillings
Item I geve unto my sisters daughter Alice Cheseman Tue ewes [two ewes]
Item I geve unto John Subayne my servannt one ewe
Item I geve to my daughters sonne Rychard Authe, a xxs with is in the hande of his father

item I geve unto my daughter Dennys tenne pounds to be paide unto her withe in one hole yeare after my decease
Item I geve unto my daughter Anne twenty pounds to be paide unto her att the age of twenty and thre yeares or if she marry before, Then I will it to be paide at the day of her mariage

Item I geve unto my daughter Dennes my best sheete
Item I geve unto my daughter Anne my best white tester with a furenge [fringe?]

The residue of all my housholde stuffe I geve to my sonne Thomas and my daughter Dennes and to my daughter Anne equally to be shifted & devided by even portyons betwixt them

The residue of all my goods and cattell ungeven & bequethed my dettes and legacyes paide and dishardised [distributed?] I geve unto my sonne Thomas whome I make and ordeyne myne executor withe my Brother Wyllyam Kempe To whome I geve twenty shillings

Provided all way[es] and it is my will that if ether of my said sonne Thomas my daughter Dennes or my daughter Anne do use them selves ether to other unnaturally or ungodly and will not be ruled by my brother Wyllyam and other my naturall frynde, That then I will that he or she in whome the faulte is be founde, shall loose to the other two tenne pounds of there porcyon before geven and bequethed

Wytnes at the makinge here of Thomas Horsemanden By me Henry Godfry

Probatum fuit: nino? die July [1564]

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 8th November 2018. All rights waived for personal use � BUT please quote source and reference.

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