Item I give unto Agnes my wife 30 pounds five pairs of sheets 2 pillows with pillowcases 6 plates 2 saucers one cauldron one feather bed a bolster one blanket with a coverlet of red & blue and one bedstead such one as she shall choose the which bedstead after her decease I will that Ralfe my son shall have
Provided and my will is that before she do receive of my executors the said sum of 30 pounds she shall put in bond by sufficient securities to my executors to release all that her right of dowry or widow right of and in one tenement with the appurtenances in the parish of Molash within Kent? with appurtenances I will unto one Thomas Amys
Item I give unto John my son ten pounds
Item I give unto Elizabeth my daughter ten pounds
Item I give unto Mary my daughter ten pounds
Item I give unto Grace my daughter ten pounds
Item I give unto Agnes my daughter ten pounds
Item I give unto Joyce my daughter ten pounds
And my will is that Elizabeth my daughter shall have her portion her day of
marriage or within one whole year after my decease, and that Mary Grace
Agnes and Joyce my daughters shall have their several parts at their days of
marriage or at the age of 23 years
Item I give unto Ralfe my son 20 pounds two ewes and two lambs the which ewes and lambs I will he shall have within one year after my decease and the sum of 20 pounds at the age of 21 And my will is that Agnes my wife shall have said sum of 30 pounds within three years after my decease so that the yield to the making of the bond with sufficient securities as is before set down or else my will is that my executors shall detain and keep in their hands 10 pounds of the said 30 pounds to discharge a bond wherein I stand bound to Thomas Amis of Molash and his assigns
Item I give unto mother Thomas 4 pence
Item I give to Roger Lastes? 4 pence
Item I give to John Willeys 4 pence
For my Lands this is my will First I give and bequeath unto Edward and William my sons one great tenement in the parish of Saint Dunstan near Cant. and the backside with a piece of lease land and the appurtenances in fee simple forever
Item I give unto Ralfe my son one little tenement with a way that leadeth to an house of office all being adjoining to the greater tenement and situated in the said parish of Saint Dunstan to him in fee simple for ever and my will is that my wife during her life shall keep half the reparations of both the said Tenements
All the rest of my goods my legacies and debts discharged I give and
bequeath unto Edward and William my sons equally between them and I ordain
and make them my executors to see this my will performed provided and my
will is that if my goods will not arise to discharge this my will and to
give and allow unto Edward and William my sons and executors 40 pounds
apiece then I will the portions of all my children shall by the discretion
and ordering of my overseers be abated & diminished so that there may be
sufficient to discharge my legacies and that my executors may have either of
them 40 pounds as is aforesaid and I appoint Ralfe Tyrry and Christopher
Gales? to be my overseers
These being witnesses Thomas Bunker by mark Isaack Tyrry and William Knight
Probate: 12th March 1585/86
Notes:
John Mantle buried at Nackington on 13 February 1585/86
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