Will of William Sweeting

of Canterbury, Kent

Item I will and give to the poore of the pishe of St. Paules three shillings fower pence
Item I will and bequthe to Agnes my Wife all suche movable goods as are mine and do belonge unto me at my deathe, she to have and enjoye them duringe all the terme of her naturall life
And after her decease my debts and legacies paid I will all my howshold stufe to be equally devided amonge my fower children in manner followinge viz the same beinge devided into fower prts wherof two parts to remaine to Lenarde my sonne and the residue to my other Children, viz David Swetinge, Barbara Swetinge als Streeter and Alice Sweting

Item my will is that Agnes my wife shall have her dwellinge in the house wth thappurtinannce [the appurtenances] where I now dwell situat and being in the pish of Saint Paules nere and wthout the Walles of the Citye of Canterbury during her Naturall life
And after her decease I will the same house wth the garden and thappurtinannces thereto belonging shall remaine to Lennard my sonne and to his heires
Item I will that the Joyned benche, joyne table and windscot [wainscot] cbberd [cupboard] in the hall shall remaine in my house to the use of Lennard my sonne

Item I will and bequethe to David my sonne tenne pounds to be paid him by my sonne Lennard wthin sixe monethes after the decease of Agnes my wife
Item I will to my daughter Alice five pounds

Item I make and ordaine Agnes my Wife and Lennard my sonne my executors of this my last will and testament

In Witness of the prmisses to be my last will and testament I have heareunto set my hand and seale in the day and yeare first above written
Witnesses prsent at the readinge and acknowledging hereof by the testator above named
Thomas Clarke; Richard Allen
By me: William Swetinge

Probatum fuit: 12th March 1592/93.

An Inventarye of the goods of William Sweting late of the pishe of St. Paules nere the walles of the Cittye of Canterburye deceased prised by George Chapman & Richard Allin the xxvjth [26th] day of Januarye in the xxxvth yere of the Raigne of or Sovraigne lady Quene Elizabeth &c.

											£.	s.	d.
	In the Haull
Inprimis one joyne table, a joyne forme, a long settle, a joyne cupbbard, 
	thre grene cushions, a joyne table of wallnutte & one olde turned chaire	1	13	4
Item	certen bookes									0	5	0
Item	old painted clothes in the haull & thre joyned stoolles				0	5	0
	In the Shopps
Item	xijc of leade att xvjs the hundred, ceten sother, certen working toolwa, 
	ij paire of stooles &  waightes							4	14	0
      	In the Buttery
Item	five pewter platters, fowre pewter dishes, two pewter candlesticks, five 
	latten candlesticks, two pewter basons, two pewter saltes, five porrenders, 
	sixe fruit dishes, vij sawcers, two chamber pottes & a pint pott of pewter, 
	vj peiol? spones & a goddard							0	13	4
Item	one brasse pott of the middle sorte & a lesser brasse pott, fower brasse 
	stupnetts, two olde kettells of brasse, a chafing dishe of lattenm a brasse 
	panne & a franr? of brasse							0	13	4
Item	two shelves, a warming panne							0	1	8
       	In the Chamber next the Streate
Item	a joyned bedestedle, a fetherbed, a paire of blanketts, an olde covrlett, 
	two fether bolsters & certen blew curtens					3	0	0
Item	a trendlebedstedle, a flockbed, two old blanketts, a bolster of flock, 
	a covrlet of decing?								0	13	4
Item	iiij pillows									0	4	0
Item	old painted clothes & one wicker chair						0	4	0
Item	his wearing apparell								2	0	0
Item	two chested & a boxe								0	5	0
	In Lynnen
Item	a christening Sheette, vij old pillowcotes, xviij table napkins, one old 
	cubard clothe, a casting towell, a sheette to laye upon a bed, when a woman 
	lyeth in childbed, a diap(er) tablecloth, one playne tablecloth, viij paier 
	of sheettes & one odd sheette							3	6	8
	In the middle Chamber
Item	one joyne bedstedle, one old trucklebed & old painted clothes one turned 
	chaire & one old great cheste & one covrlet of doriner?				1	0	0
Item	one leaden still?								0	2	0
	In the little Chamber
Item	one old bedstedle, iij course tableclothes, xij table napkins, sixe hand 
	towells & one old shippe cheste							0	10	0
	In the workehouse & backside
Item	certen fall wood & faggotts, two roopes, certen working tooles & other lumber	1	0	0
	In the lofte over the workehouse
Item	a paire of old smithes bellowes & old lumber					0	10	0
	In the Kitchine
Item	one old joyne table, one old joyne settle, two old joyne stooles, one old 
	table, a shelve & thre(e) old chaiers						0	6	8
Item	one old dripping panne, a frying panne, certen woodden vessell(s), 
	two lynnen wheles & one old yron chafinge dishe, thre yron spittes & a paier 
	of bellowes & thre choping knyves						0	6	8
Item	a saverd calyver flasks & tench box being olde					0	5	0
	In the Seller
Item	two farkins?, a brynne tubbe, a stalder & certen blew tubbs			0	6	7
Item	all other lumber unseen & not prized						0	3	4

								Sum Total:		£22	4	10

Notes:
William Sweting was buried 8 Jan 1592/93 at St. Paul, Canterbury, Kent.
William Sweeting married Agnes Saverie, Maiden 16th ? 1559 (month illegible) at Canterbury.
William’s known children: 22 May 1561 An; 16 May 1563 Leonard; 12 Nov 1563 John; 20 Apr 1567 Alice; 18 Feb 1568/69 David; baptised at St. George the Martyr, Canterbury.
Barbara Sweeting married William Streeter 20 Jan 1583 at St. Paul, Canterbury.
A plommer / plummer / plumber at this time was someone who worked with lead, typically church roofing, downpipes, water supply and drainage.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 15th October 2023

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