Inprimis I devise all my Marsh lands in Ash Marsh to my sonne Adam Sprackling & his
heyres for ever paying to Jane my daughter �200 within five yeares after my decease
& in ye Interim, my minde is yt my sonne Adam shall pay har �12 by ye yerre towards har
Maytenance & for non payment to distrayne upon ye lands aforesaid
Item I give unto Leonard, my Eldest sonnes sonne, �5 to bee paid by my executor hereafter mencioned when hee shall attayne to the age of one & twentie yerres
Item I give unto my sonne James the Catherine wheele, Maulthouse, orchard, backside,
outhouses together with the appurtenances unto ye said James Sprackling & the heyres of his
body : now in ye occupacion of Hilles & Lott & other tenants, lying in ye City of Canterbury
& if it shall happent my sonne James shall dye without yssue of his body then my will is that
it shall discend & come to my sonne Adam & John & theire heires for ever
Item I devise unto my sonne John & the Heyres of his body, all that Messuage, barne, backside, outhouse, orchard & Marshlands thereunto belonging, scituate, lying & being without Wincheape lately in the occupacion of ye Widdow Richardson or her assignes & if it shall happen my sonne John shall dye without yssue of his body that then ye revertion shall discend & come to my sonne Adam & James & theire heires
Item I give unto my daughter Anne Sprackling & her heires my howse & lands in Denton, together with howses in St Dunstones
Item I give unto my Daughter Sibill & Margaret & to each of them �200 to bee paid by my Executor at theire severall dayes of Mariage or one & twentie yerres & in ye interim, Interest to bee paid towards theire Mayntenance
Item I give unto my Daughter Anne all my bedding, furniture, linnin & all other things as
they now stand in ye chamber over ye parlor
Item I doe devise unto my daughter Jane one halfe of all my howsehold stufe & yet other
halfe to bee divided equally beetweene my Daughters Sibill & Margaret
Item I give & bequeath ye howse which I now live in, together with thappurtenances unto my sonne Adam & his heyres for ever
Item I doe hereby make my good friend Mr James Senior my sole Executor to this my last
will & testament, to whom I doe devise ye Gardenshippe of my children
Item I doe make William Man esquire & Paul Epes overseers of this my last will &
testament
Item I doe devise unto Leonard Fogge one of ye sonnes of my Daughter Fogge �20 to be paid at his age of 21 yerres
Lastly, my will & meaning is that ye �400 before devised by mee unto my Daughter Sibill & Margaret at ye tymes afforesayd shall bee paid in manner & forme following : by my sonnes Adam, James & John out of theire severall landes & tenements pre devised unto them (that is to say) my sonne Adam shall pay over and above ye �200 pounds to my daughter Jane, one hundred & three & thirtie pounds, six shillings & eight pence to my Daughter Margaret; my sonne James ye like summe of one hundred & three & thirtie pounds, six shillings & eight pence to my daughter Sibill & my sonne John to pay ye like summe of one hundred thirtie & three pounds, six shillings & eight pence to my daughters Sibill & Margaret equally to be divided betweene them
Witnesseth hereunto : Laurence Rooke, Courthope Wood
The will is not signed � not even a �Mark�. The Testator died in Eastbridge Hospital, and in all probability the will was written in haste, omitting all the usual formalities�Probate was given four days later. It would appear that �Mr James Senior� whom the Testator had requested to be his childrens� guardian, was �replaced� by Courthope Wood � the testator�s brother in law, to whom the guardianship of the Testator�s children was given� he being a younger man? Or preferred by the teenagers?)
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