Sills Will 1637

Will of Jane Sills

of Faversham, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury original will PRC/16/217 S/8
Transcribed by Maureen Rawson

In the name of God amen I Jane Selles of Feaversham in the countie of Kente widdo beeing sicke and weake in bodie but yet of a good and parfite remembrances I praies all mightie God therefour I doo make and ordaine this my presente laste will and teastamente in mannar and forme as followeth
Firste I give and bequeathe my precsius sowle unto allmighti God my loving and marcifull father whoe hathe made mee for his on glorie and to Jesus Christe my blessed redeemar and to the Holy Crosse my only comfortar in lyfe and death and my body to bee bewried at the discrecsion of myne Excator heereafter named and for my worldly goods that God in marci hathe beestowed on mee in this lyf I give them and everie of them in manar and forme as followeth

First I give and bequeathe unto Elizabethe the daughter of William Benden on payre of large sheetes on large tableclath a large towel sixe tabel napkines and thes shee shall have within on mornthe nixt after my decease

Item I give and bequeath unto Marie Francis on payre of sheetes and on payre of pillowe coates and thes shee shall have withe in on monthe nixte after my decease

Itm I give and bequeathe unto Elizabeth Benden and unto Wiliam Litelwood the younger and unto Wiliam Bayle and unto Robert Wessorne? and unto Wiliam Gowldsmithe and unto Susanna Dalman and unto Anna Pantrie and unto Marie Dalman and unto Jane Cutbourn the youngar and unto all my sistar Marie Shroubsole hear chilldren and unto John Miles and unto the childe of Anna Shroubsole and unto Elizabeth Milles unto thes I doo give and bequeath and unto everi on of them a bible of the prise of seven shillinges and that they shall have thes there several bibles within on yeare nixt after my decease

Itm I give and bequeathe unto Mr Philipes owre nowe ministar twentie sixe shillinges and eayght pence
Itm I give and bequeath all the reste of my goods and chatteles what so ever and wheare so evear unto Hinrie Crafte my sonn in lawe and unto my only daughter Marie his wyfe

and I make and ordaine him the said Hinrie Sole Exector of this my presente laste will and teastament heere by renownsinge all formar willes and heere unto I have sete my hand datid the ith day of aprill in the yeare 1637.
The mark of Jane Selles

Witnesses to this present teastamente
The mark of Abigal Wallis � Robert Letlesden?

Probate 26 Apr 1637
Inventory taken

Note: See will of her husband William Sills of Faversham 1636

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Will of Jane Sills
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