Sayer Will 1634

Will of Walter Sayer

of Tilmanstone, Kent


Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 16/208 S/4 or: PRC 17/69/442b
Submitted by Margaret Glenn
In the name of God Amen I Walter Sayer of the p[ar]ishe of Tilmanstone, Yeoman beuiying? as yet through God’s aged porsdeice? both sufficient understanding and memory and thus willing both to ever of my selfe and whatsoever is or may bee found mine after my departure hence to witt my soule? I comend into his hands, who at first gave it mee, my body I comit unto the grownd in hope of glorious resurreccon

As for my worldly goods I leave them wholy unto my best beloved wife Alice whome I Constitute Sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament

whereby I will unto unmarried? by name: Walter, Thomas, William, Alice, Susanna, Sara and Anne the full sums of Twenty pounds sterling good and lawfull money of England to be paid them the sonnes at Thirty yeares of age; the Daughters at six and twenty who shall all and every one of them togeather with their other brothers and sisters share alike in whatsoever shall appear to remaine of any of my goods at the death of their mother my .... wife Alice Sayer

who ise [if?] after my death she be chance to marry againe then I will shee accompt faithfully with all and every one of them for that whole estate of mine which was left her unto whome in suche as I will, but forty pounds, giveing all the rest upon her marriage againe, betwixt all my sonnes and daughters then liveing well and understood that such as shall not then as yet have receaved the Twenty pounds appointed them before shall have them then paid them as their proper porcon who over run above have their part according to equall proportion, my wife dyeing or marryeing againe

Finally to avoid all dispentions? hereafter my minde and meaning treefly? is that such as my sonnes and daughters as are married already by name Stephen, Edward, Elizabeth and Jane pretend not any right unto any thing further than that which they have had Already, except in Case their Mother now my wife Alice Come to marry againe or depart this life for as such as then they shall together with their Brothers and Sisters all of them share equally every one haveing had formerly their Twenty pounds paid them

In presence of us: Moses Cape, Vicar; James Soulby; John Cardmor;
Walter Sayer his marke

Probatum fuit: 6th August 1634

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 10th August 2021


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