I give and bequeath unto Judith my loving wife the interest of thirty pounds which I have engaged for to do by a certaine writeing under my hand to be paid yearely unto her dureing her naturall life which Interest money shall be soe paid by my sons Richard and Daniell Nepecker untill my daughter Jane shall come to receive her porcon hereafter to her bequeathed and then she shall pay yearely towards the same sum of sixteen shillings and my said sonn Daniell shall pay the rest yearely dureing my said wife’s life and my said sonn Richard shall be therefrom accquitted
Item I give and bequeath unto my sonne Richard Nepecker the fore named seaventy pounds of lawfull money of England
Item I give to my said daughter Jane one hundred pounds to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease, she paying out of the
same sixteene shillings yearly to her mother as aforesaid
Item I give unto my sonne Edward twelve pence
Item I give to my daughter Elizabeth twelve pence
Item I give unto my daughter Mary threscore pounds to be paid by my Executors
Item I give unto my sonne in law Richard Fitch twelve pence
Item I give to my said wife her dwellling in the chamber where I now lye in if she please dureing her
life and all such household stuffe as she bought and was her owne at our intermarriage
Item it is my will if my Executors cannot raise money enough to pay all my debts and legacies hereby
willed then they shall sell sum [some] of my household stuffe to pay the same
Item I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Daniell Nepaker All that my messuage or tenement, Shops, Slaughterhouse, Stabled, fires, buildings, gardens, closes and orchard to the said messuage belonging, situate, lyeing and being in Pluckley aforesaid and now in my occupacon To have and to hold to my said sonne Daniell And to his heires for ever in Fee simple
Item I make and ordaine my said sonnes Richard and Daniell the Executors of this my last will and Testament they paying my debts legacies and funerall expences
Moreover it is my will and minde that my said wife shall have free liberty from time to time and at all times dureing her life to make use of the well to fetch water and also to lay her wood in some part of the backside where it is most convenient, and free ingresse and regresse for my said wife to goe comme carry recarry unto and from her Chamber above menconed and also free liberty to make use of such roomes of the house as she shall have occasion for to doe her houswifery busines in
I hereby make void all former wills by me made And make publish and declare this for my last will and Testament
In Witnes whereof I the said John Nepecker have hereunto set my hand and seale dated the day and year first before written
John Nepecker
Signed sealed published and declared for the last will and Testament of the said John Nepacker the Testator in the presence of us
Edward Nepecker; George Poole
Probatum fuit: 30th April 1674
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 21st June 2021
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