Item I will & bequeath unto Amye my beloved wife one hundred pounds To be paide unto her in mann[e]r and forme following (that is
to say) fiftie pounds at the feast of St. Michaell next after my decease and the other fiftie pound that day twelve moneth
And that shee shall have her dwelling in the house freely wherein I now dwell until my sonne John Wiett shall accomplish and Come
to his full age of one & Twentie yeares
Item I will and bequeath to Robert Wyett my younger sonne the sume of one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid unto Clement Stuppeney and Clement Tyre of Lydd aforesaid or to one of them to the use of my sayd sonne at the feast of St. Michaell Th'archangell next after my decease by them to be paid out to the best profitt for and toward the bringing up and maynetenance of my said sonne and by them to be paid unto him when he shall accomplish and Come to the age of xxj [21] yeares
Item I will and bequeath unto Mary Wyett my daughter the some of four Score pounds of lawfull money of England to be pad unto her
when she accomplish and Come to the age of xxj yeares, or at the day of her marryage whether of them shall first Come
Also I will that my executor hereunder nominated shall yearely pay unto the said Mary my daughter the some of Four poundes of lawfull
money of England untill my said daughter shall accomplish her age aforesaid or day of mariage at two termes in the yeare (that is to say)
at the Feast of the Nativitie of our Saviour Christ and the Nativitie of St. John the Baptist by equall porcons for the mayntenance of
my said daughter, the first payment thereof to begin at the first of the said Feasts w[hi]ch shall next happen after my decease
All the residue of my goods and Cattells, my debts, legacies, funerall expences and probate of this my will first paid, I will and bequeath John Wyett my sonne
And I doe make the said John Wyett my sonne and John Ford my brother in Lawe my executors of this my will untill my sonne shall
accomplish his said age of xxj yeares Then I will that my said sonne John shall be my sole Executor of this my Testament and last will
And I doe give the said John Ford the sume of fiftie shillings
Provided allwayes and my will and mind is that yf any of my said Children happen to dye before he, she or they shall accomplish and Come to their severall ages as aforesaid, Then I will his, her or their partes so dying shall remayne to him, her or them surviving equaly to be devided betwene them
Item I give to the reparacons of the Church of Lydd the sum of xls
Item I give to the poore people of the p'ish of Lydd aforesaid the sume of Forty shillinges to be distributed by my Executors according
to their discretions
Item I give unto Susanne Cooper my Servant five shillinges of lawfull money of England
Item I give unto my Sister Morris five yards & a halfe of yard broad russett or kersey every two yeares during her life at iij shillings the yard to make her a petti Coate & 3 wascote [waistcoats] the first payment thereof to begin at Michaellmas next after my decease
The marke of Robert Wyett
Wyetnesses hereunto: John Allen, Will. Willcocke, Richard Plomer, Raynold Browning
Note: Robert Wyett was buried at All Saints, Lydd on 19th April 1620, as “Robert Wiatt, householder”.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 27th September 2021
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