Mumbray Will 1564

Will of Thomas Mombre

of Sutton next Dover, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury PRC/17/39/14 4pp
Submitted by Jeremy Stroud
In the name of god amen in the year of our lord A thousand five hundrethe thre score and thre [1563], and in the sixte Yeare of the reigne of our Sovereign lady Quene Elizabethe By the grace of god of England France and Ireland queen And defender of the faithe, and also of the churche of England The supreme hedd, the tenthe day of Marche/
I Thomas Mombre Of the parishe of Sutton next Dover doe ordeyne and make this My last will and testament in manner & forme following
FyrsteI bequeathe my soule to all mightie god to the vyrgyn Mary and All the holly company in heaven and my body to be buryed in the Churche yard of Sutton afore said

Item Fyste I geve to the Poor mens box xij d
Item I geve to Wyllyam Burge my godsonne a lambe

Item I geve to Robert Stock of Ewell six pound thirteen shillings & foure pence to be payed to him at the feaste of St Mychaell next after my decease apon condycon that the said Robert Stock doe make his assurance to my syster his wyffe of the said twenty poundes that her father gave her to maryage aswell as of the vj lb xiij s iiij d that I the said Thomas Mombre hathe nowe geve to my syster the wife of Robert Stoke or ells the said gyfte of vj lb xiij s iiij d to Be ?noyed and not geven

Item I will and bequethe to foure Daughters of Thomas Ladde of Barham eche of them a cowe & Five sheepe that is to Sylvester Ladde, Alyce Ladde, Anne Ladde And Affra Ladde, to be payed to them by myne executors or her Assignes ymedyatly after her decease

Item I will to my mother My house and my lands and moveables wholy durynge her natural Lyffe payenge my dettes legacyes & bequethes,
whom I doe ordeyneAnd make myne executor to dispose for my sowle & all my frendes Sowles departed in the Faythe of Christe

Item I geve & bequethe To Vyncent Ladde of Barham, the sonne of Thomas Ladde, my House and my lands in the parishe of Sutton or in the county of Kent or ells where and to his heyer
And if the said Vyncent Doe dy w’th out heyer, then the said house and lende to remayne To the daughters of the said Thomas Ladde
except it please All mightie god to sende Thomas Ladde any other sonne, Then I Will it shall remayne to him, and not to the daughters as it Afore said

Item I will and bequethe to Vyncent Ladde my carte and My fower horses w’th all the apparel there to belonging ymedyatly After the decease of my mother w’th my house and lands as it is afore Said

Item I doe ordeyne and make Thomas Ladde of Barham Myne oversear

These bearynge wytnes Thomas Ladde of Barham Wyllyam Godfrey, Peter Veryer, John Salter

Dettes owinge to Me the said Thomas Mombre
Fyrste Robert Stoke owethe me Five poundes
Wyllyam Heyward owethe for thre quarters and A half of whete pryce xiiij d? the quarter /=/

Probatum fuit testament predic? Thome Mombre defuncti & Sententiam diffinitina Sequen
There then follows a long text in Latin, written by Vincent Denne LLB, the gist of which appears to concern a dispute over the probate of the above will of Thomas Mombre [son of Thomas & Agnes] between Agnes Mombre widow and relict, executrix vs. Robert Stock & William Toose.
Judgement made 22 Nov 1564? by Vincent Denne in favour of Agnes Mumbray, widow; notary Thomas Cranmer is also mentioned.
[Note Agnes must have died sometime in the period of about Apr-Sep 1573 Barham according to her own will made 24 Mar 1572/3 proved 21 Nov 1573]


Return to Kent Genealogy

Will of Thomas Mombre
Created by Maureen Rawson