Will of Alice Smitheson

of Wye, Kent

first she willed and gave unto Gregorye her sonne twenty shillings with ?coins in a pillowe under her bedde heade & a brasse Pott
And all the residue of all her goods shee willed & bequeathed them to the foresaid Gregorye & John Smitheson her two sonnes equallie to be divided between them
Excepte a russet petticoate and a wastecoate and a brassen Stuonett with shee willed and gave to Dorothey Smitheson her sonne Johns daughter

And further being then asked What shee woud give to her daughters that was Married shee answered them againe & shee hath had her p[ar]te already yea and more then her p'te come to
And they asked her what her p'te was shee answered & shee had given her first and last xij L [£12] and yf shee was ashamed to tell what it was.

Wittnes pr’[esen]te att the uttering and declaring of this her last will and testament nuncupative aforesaid
William Wells and his wife and Alice Wood the wife of Thomas Wood:
The marke of Alice Wood William Wells Margarett Wells

Probate .... 14th June 1603 .... John Smitheson filio [=son]

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