Item where as the churche owethe me a s[u]m of mony that I have leyd out beinge warden: where of I gyve
towardes reperacyons of the churche of that monny vjs viijd
Item I gyve to Myldred Sutton tenne ewes and a Bnd? of twelmonthe old and a Cowe at her maryage to be delyvered by myne executor
Item I gyve to John Crowder and Robert Dane and George Jekyn every of them a lambe to be delyvered
after my decease wythe in a monthe.
Item I gyve to George Hambrowke a cowe to be delyvered withe in a monthe after my decease.
Item I make Robert Sutton my sonne my lawfull executor of this my last will and testament to pay all my Dett[es] and legacyes and to receave all my Dett[es] / And to lett Jone Sutton my wyfe to have a chamber in my house where in I dwell duringe her lyfe and foretye shilling[es] a yere duringe her liff out of my lands and also duringe her liff yearly two seames of wheat two seames of maulte and two kyen and there kepinge duringe her liff and two hogges & kepinge duringe terme aforesayd and fyve lode of wood yearly
The reste of all my goodes moveables and Unmoveables, landes and Tenement[es] or reversyons of landes withe all other com[m]odytyes
I gyve unto Robert Sutton myne executor as is afore sayd
And I make Wyllyam Sutton my brother over sear of this my last will and testament, and for his paynes
I give him vjs viij d and to every of his sonnes and daughters to wytt Thomas, Wyllyam
Christopher,Jone and Suzan Sutton every of them xij d apeace
Item I gyve to Wyllyam Sutton one lambe.
Item to the poore mens box xijd.
Item I gyve to Jone my wiff one fetherbed one coverlet the best ij bolsters one under clothe and one Blanekett iiij payer of shetes.
Item also I gyve unto my wiff one brasse pott a greate ketell and a lytell ketell, thre platters, iij dishes,
one candelstyck, a salte.
Wytnes at makinge here of Wyllyam Sutton, Robert Sutton, Nycholas Harringan
Probatum fuit � supra script[um] testamentum coram mag[iste]ro vincentio
De� in legibus Baccalauris reverendi Dni?... huic Cant officiale / Decimo
die mensis maij Anno d[o]m[in]I mill[es]imo quingen�mo sexagesimo quarto, [10 May 1564]
Juram� Willi[el]mi Sutton et testim / Ac. � officiale �ltime
approbatum et infirmatum Necnon pro vero valore eiusdem ltime � iatum
Omn� executionis eiusd[em] com[m]issari est Executori supra no[m]i[n]ato primuit Jurat
Et / Dat / et
Notes
Giles was a farmer of sheep, cattle and pigs and also grew wheat and barley. His wife Joan
outlived him and they had a son Robert, who was made executor and was presumably 21.
The will is useful in recording the names of his brother William�s children: five of the eight
named in William�s will of 1571 are also named here: Thomas, William, Christopher, Joan and
Susan and this gives a likely sequence for the male births and then the girls, all born prior to
June 1561. William named three other children in 1570/1 - Ingram, Adam and Agnes � born
between 1561 and 1570/1, and as noted previously baptisms of Ingram and Agnes have been
found at Hawkinge. Adam�s baptism has not been found but presumably was after that of Ingram.
The TYLER index includes as one of its first Hawkinge entries the marriage between Elizabeth
SUTTON of Hawkinge, daughter of �Gylls� SUTTON, to George HAMBROOKE of Hougham, 9
December 1560. A check of Hougham entries in the TYLER index shows the marriage was
also recorded there on 2 December 1560.
George HAMBROUKE , recipient of the cow, may be Giles�s son-in-law, or possibly the first
child of George and Elizabeth.
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