Morris Will 1545

Will of Thomas Morris

of Wingham, Kent


Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury PRC 33/234
Submitted by Brian Richardson
DATE: 8th July 1545, Proved: 16th August 1545

To be buried in the church yard at Wingham.
Item: to John Morris my son 2 feather beds, 2 coverlets, 2 blankets a poy a pan, a chaser with an ear, 2 ..., 5 platters, 2 pewter dishes, 3 saucers, 2 porringers, 3 candlesticks a red kirtell sometime of my wives her second gown half of the kerchiefs and half of the other linen, 2 pairs of beads of the lesser sort, 2 of the best rings, a harness girdle and the 5 silver spoons all of one sort, 2 kine one with a white face, the other is out at farm at Bowles, one acre of wheat and another of green peas also a green coat a worsted doublet and one chest..

Item: I give and bequeath to William Morris the half of my debts due unto me and I will and bequeath unto him when he come to the age of 18 years.
Item: I give and bequeath the other half of the said debts to John and Edmund Morris equally to be divided between them.

The residue of all my goods unto the said Edmund Morris my son whom I make my sole executor.
In witness Sir William Chaucer, Nicholas Childerhouse, Laurence Rigden, Richard Parker, Thomas Wyncheham

Item: As for the division of my lands in Wingham and Herne,
to John Morris my son my house and lands lying at Herne to him and his heirs forever.
Item: to Richard his son the house and gardens in Wingham that Henry Bocking now dwelleth in to him and his heirs for ever.
Item: to Thomas Morris his son the house and lands that John Essex now dwell in.
Item: to Henry Morris his son the little tenement and garden which Anthony Dutch do dwell in to him and his heirs for ever.
Item: to John Morris his son the garden place laying against the chancery in Wingham. The said lands to remain in the hands of John Morris their father until they are 18.

Item: to Edmund Morris my son my house and lands in Wingham which he now dwell in.
Item: to Edmund Morris his son my house that I now dwell in when he is 18 and they to remain in the hands of his father till then.


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