Slaney Will 1701

Will of Benjamin Slaney

of Chart Sutton, Kent

Source: Consistory Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 32/57/155b
Submitted by Jeremy Stroud

In the name of God Amen I Benjamin Slaney of Charte next Sutton in the County of Kent Gent[leman] being of sound & p[er]fecte minde & memory (praise be to Almighty God) doe make & ordaine this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following (that is to say)
First & principally I comend my soule into the hands of Almighty God hopeing through the merritts death & passion of my blessed Savior Jesus Christ to have full & free p[ar]don & forgiveness of all my sinns, & to inheirt everlasting life, my body I comitt to the Earth to be decently buryed at the discrecon of my Executor hereafter named & as touching the disposicon of all my temporall Estate, I give & bequeath the same as followeth

Inpri[mi]s I will that my Debts & funerall charges shall be paid & discharged
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Slaney & to her heires & Assignes for ever All that messuage or tenement Barnes Stables yard & garden thereunto belonging, together with eight peeces or p[ar]cells of Arrable, Meadow & pasture Land to the said messuage or tenement belonging containeing in the whole by estimacon three score Acres be the same more or less all which s[ai]d messuage or tenement lands & pr[e]misses ar(e) scituate lying and being in the sevrall p[ar]ishes of Hucking or Hollingbourne in the aforesd County of Kent & now are in the Tenure or Occupacon of John Harmon his Assignee or Assignes Undertenant or Undertenants

Item I give and bequeath unto my sd daughter Mary Slaney and to her heirs & assignes forever all those my goods & Ch[att]ells in the house where I dwell of what kind soever & allsoe all the ready money which at the time of my death I shall have by me in the said house

All the rest & residue of my reale & p[er]sonall estate goods & chells whatsoever I give & bequeath unto my sonn Thomas Slaney & to his heirs & Assignes for ever, whom I doe hereby make & appoint full & whole Executor of this my last will & Testament
I doe hereby revoke disanull & make void all former Wills & Testaments by me made heretofore, either by word of mouth or in writeing

In Witness whereof I the sd Benjamin Slaney to this my last will & Testament contained in one sheet of paper have set my hand & seale this one & twentieth day of February In the year of o[u]r Lord one thousand six hundred ninety & nine
Benjamin Slaney

Signed sealed published & declared by the said Testator in the pr[e]sence of us whose names are subscribed as witnesses & attested by us in the prsence of the sd Testator
Frances Osborne her marke; Thomas Osborne; Robt. Dixon

Probatum fuit: 21st June 1701
Inventory taken - Benjamin Slaney of Aldington, gentleman PRC/27/35/152.

Notes:
Benjamin Slaney was buried 14th June 1701 at St. Martin, Aldington, Kent.
His two children: bt. 14 Apr 1695 Mary aged 14; bt. 19 Sep 1695 Thomas aged about 20 – both at St. Mary, Langley.
Thomas Slaney married Catherine Ellis 23 Nov 1699 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex and they had children in Langley from 1701.
Benjamin Slaney of Chart Sutton, widower married Mary Staunton of Aldington, widow by licence at Aldington 1 Oct 1700
Mary Slaney of Aldington, widow of Benjamin, re-married 16th July 1701 to Walter Brooke, Widower and Farrier of Ashford, Kent, at St. George the Martyr Canterbury.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 13th December 2022

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