Inprimis I give to the poore of Saltwood to be distributed at the discretion of the Churchwardens of the p[ar]ishe twentye shillings
Item I give to the poore of Hithe [Hythe] to be distributed at the discretion of the Churchwardens of the town twentye shillings
Item I give to my daughter Bennet Warde my chaine of goulde and unto her sonne John Warde the three pounds that Mr.
Lawrence Baker doth owe me if my executors get it for him without coste in the lawe
Item I give unto her daughter Alice Warde a paier of finer sheetes, lienge in the leaste of the three linnen chests & which
standeth next to the doore in the owter chamber, a tablecloth and a dosen of napkines
Item I give to my daughter Amy Bedingfild my damaske gowne
Item I give to my doughter Anne Thwaites all my frenche goods and sixe of my smallest Silver Spoones and my Silk grograine gowne
& my blacke satten kirtle & a liskin of velvet
Item I give to her daughter Alice Thwaites a christening Sheete & a payer of other sheetes, a tablecloth & a dozen of napkins
Item I give to my doughtr Jane Gibbes my trencher, silver & guilte salte, my taffatye gowne & my seconde turs [best?] taffety kirtle & my
silke grograine petticote;
And unto her doghter Alice Gibbes a paier of the finer sheets lieng in the foresaid cheste, a christeninge hankerchiffe, a
rushencloth & a payer of fine pillowcotes
Item I give to my doughter Alice Baker my halfe dosen of spoones called Maidenhead Spoones & my best gowne before not bequethed,
and my best trustaffaty? kirtle & my trustaffaty liskin & my garded stamell cloth petticotes
Item I give to my cosen Christopher Honywood his wife my ..... damaske petticote
Item I give to my brother Rainold Blechenden his wife my best velvet bonngrace & my best heande & partlet unto it
Item I give to my brother Robert Blechenden his wife my taffatye aperne & my best band & partlet next
Item I give to my three unmarried doughters Mary, Catherine & Elizabeth an hundred pounds apeece if they continewe unmarried
untill the time of my decease over and above the hundred pounds a peece given them by theire father in consideration of all duties
that they may challenge or claime to be due unto them for their use, interest & profit of the hundred
pounds apeece given them by their father and the said sonnes by me geve [given] to be paid unto
them at their severall ages of one & twenty yeares or at their severall dayes of marriage which of them
shall first happen after my decease so as none of them of the age of one and twenty yeares
within one quarter of a yeare after my decease or maried
But if any of them be of the age of one & twenty yeares before my decease or come to the said age of
one & twenty yeares or be maried before the end of a quarter of a yeare after my decease then she or
they to have their parte at the end of a quarter of a yeare after my decease
My will is that my execut[o]rs shall paye unto each of my unmaried daughters thirty shillings a quarter untill the said hundred poundes
apeece by me given shalbe due unto them, which quarterly paiment shall cease to each one so soone as her said some of an hundred
pounds shalbe paid or they agreed with for it
And my will is yt [that] if any of my said unmaried doughters fortune to dye being under the age
of one & twenty yeares & before marriage, that the survivours or survivor of them shall have her or their parte so deceased
Provided and alwaies remebred [remembered] that I have used these words if they continue unmaried
untill the time of my decease, because that I do purpose [prepose?] yt if any of my said unmaried
doughters fortune to marrye in my life time either to make p[re]sent paiment or ells other assuraunces for that some or somes of money
that I doe meane to bestowe upon them
Wherefore my will is that if any of them fortune to marrye in my lifetime yt [that] she or they? that
shall be married in my lifetime shall have no parte nor parcell of money due unto her or them by
vertue of this my will, but her or their parte to remaine wholly to my executors any thinge before to
the contrary not w[i]th standinge
Provided also yt [that] if any of my three unmarried doughters shall bestowe them selves in marriage contrary to the likinge of my brother Rainold Blechenden & the same signified in writine under the hande of them or the survivor of them, then she or they that shall so bestowe themselves contrary to the likinge of my aforesaid brother shall lose the benefits of my foresaid bequethes, And then her or their parte to go to them or her that shall not bestowe them selves contrary to the likinge of my foresaid brother
Item I do give unto my said three unmaried doughters all my wearing linnen that I do usually weare upon my bodye & all my Worke and towe and my linnen yarne that is ready to be made into clothe and three peeces of canvas that is cute [cut] oute & Beying wrought for cushens and the corell? that I have p[ro]vided to worke the said cushens with all to be equally devided betwene them, and also all my newe unwrought linnen
Item I give to my doughters Mary Tournay and Catherine Tournay my tablet or inell & my roller & garyanet, my doughter Mary to choose
whether of them she will have
Item I give to my doughter Mary my velvet kirtle & my painted cheste that standeth in the greate Chamber
Item I give to my doughter Catherine my fugard satten kirtle and one other cheste that standeth in the same Chamber
Item I give to my doughter Elizabeth Tournay my trunke that did stand in Thomas Tournay’s chamber
Item my will is that if Thomas Tournay the sonne of my sonne John Tournay live untill my two
grandchildren Alice Tournay and Anne Tournay she severally come to the age of one and twenty yeares or shall at yt time have any
issue of his bodye livinge then my executors shall paye unto my said grandchildren Alice Tournay and Anne Tournay fiftye pounds apeece
at their severall ages of one & twenty yeares
And my will it yt if one of them fortune to dye before yt she shall accomplishe the age of one & twenty yeares, whereby nothing is due
unto her by this my will, yet if the survivor of them & her said brother together with her live untill the said survivor shall accomplishe
her age of one and twenty yeares or any issue of her said brother shall then be living, Then my executor shall paye unto
her that surviveth the whole hundred poundes at her age of one and twenty yeares
But my will is that if the said Thomas Tournay dye without issue of his bodye before that any of my
said two grannde children Alice Tournay and Anne Tournay shall come to the foresaid age of one and twenty yeares, Then neither of them
shall have any thinge by this my Will, remebring alwayes that my Will is that the said Thomas Tournay dye without issue of his bodye
before that both his said Sisters come to the age of one and twenty yeares, she that shall be under the
said age at the time of his decease shall not have any thinge by this my Will, but the parte to go wholly to my execut[or]s
And also remebringe that if the elder of my said grandechildren Alice Tournay and Anne Tournay live untill she come to the age of one
and twenty yeares and the younger of them and her said brother together with her dye without issue of the bodye of the said brother,
before that the said younger come to the age of one and twenty yeares, Then my will is that the said elder shall have
only fiftye poundes by this my Will without gaining of any thinge by survivorship whatesoever is before said to the contrary
notwithstandinge
Item I do charge my execut[ors] to bring up in good and seemely sorte my two grandechildren Alice Tournay and Anne Tournay untill their
severall ages of one and Twenty yeares or dayes of marriage Whiche of them shall first happen
And for further accomplishment of this my intente I desire the annuitye or rent charge of thirty pounds a yeare granted unto mee by
Mr. Winkefield of Reinham out of all his lands to my two sonnes Thomas Tourney and Robert Tournay and to their heires with
this intente and meaninge that they performe this my Will
Item I will unto eche of my grandechildren Alice Collins and Anne Collins a payer of the finer sheetes lienge in the foresaid
cheste and a dozen of napkines
Item I do give unto Jane Shotewater fiftye and three shillinges and fower pence
Item I do give unto Margaret Twiman if she be my servant at the time of my decease an old gowne & an old petticote & an olde
dubble wastcote & ten shillinges & one of my best ewes.
Item I do give to my brother Rainold Blechenden fower pounds
Item I do give unto my sonne Thomas Tournay the seale Ringe that was his fathers as he did usually weare
Item I give to my sonne Robert Tournay a thirty shillinge pece of goulde that I have
Item I do make my brother Rainold Blechenden and my brother Robert Blechenden overseers of this my Will
Item I do make my two sonnes Thomas Tournay and Robert Tournaye executors of this my Will,
And I do give unto them two the rest of my goods to be equally devided betwene them
In Witnes whereof I have here unto sett my hand & seale in the pr[e]sence of:
St. Herenden; William Kittam his marke; William Smithe
Probatum fuit: 27th May 1598
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 16th July 2021
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