Will of William Nicholson

of Wouldham, Kent

To be buried under the yew tree in the churchyard of Wouldham and whereas it has pleased God to bless me with 13 children, besides sundry others that be dead by my said wife, that is to say Alice Nokes, my first wife deceased.

Item: to Christopher my eldest son I have advanced lands of a yearly value of �6.4.8.
Item: Thomas was advanced �30.
Item: to Agnes, now wife to John Wayman �26.
Item: to Joane, now wife to James E...... �10
Item: to Elizabeth, wife to Wiliam Heath �10.

By Joan Perry my now wife, William whom I have brought up in his books in the University of Cambridge,
Robert advanced �100,
Nicholas, advanced �100,
Alice married to Leonard Field and advanced �10,
Faith, married to William Has... advanced �10,
Margaret married to Thomas Tunbridge, advanced �10
and Helen, not as yet advanced by me.

Item: to my said wife Joan, one half of the moiety of the manor or farm at Wouldham, half of the marsh, called the Warden�s marsh held of the Cathedral of Rochester.
After her death to my son Nicholas.

Item: to Helen, the sum of �26.14.4 within 6 weeks after 24 or marriage (with the consent of my wife).
Item: to Thomas �10.
Item: to all my servants, male and female 10 shillings and 8 pence.
William Sparhouse, Gent to be the overseer.

My lands.
Item: to ... my son in Hoo, now in the occupation of William Young, that was my father Thomas Nicholson�s deceased and the lands in the same place I recently purchased from Thomas Redlege.
If Alice the now wife of the said Thomas do remarry if he should die then the lands to go to Robert William and Christopher.

Item: to Robert my son, my lands in Hoo in the occupation of Thomas Shapley and the lands in the occupation of Thomas Bourne.
Item: to William my 17 acres in Hoo in the occupation of John Younge and the lands in Gillingham in the occupation of William Bullington and 4 acres of wood called Styleway in Chatham.
Item: to my son John 10 acres of woodland laying besides Kyles Pitt in Aylesford.
Item: to Christopher the other half of my moiety in Wouldham.

Witnesses; William Lambarde, Margaret Dene of Halling , ...... Woodward, Thomas Ketchill.

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