Item I gyve to Edward Toddye the best of my brasse potts and three shillings fower pence of money
Item I gyve to Michall Nycolls and Mary Nicholls my daughter and Richard Nicholls and Jeffry Nycholls all my moveable goods, That is Corne
and Cattell and houshold equally to be devyded alyke except one cowe, that I gyve to my daughter Mary Nicholls over and above
Item will that yf my sonne(s) Richard Nicolls or Jeffrey Nicolls dye before they come to twoe and twentie yeres of Age w[hi]ch is the tyme they shall receave the portions That then their porcons be Equally devyded Amongest them that are Lyving
Item I will that my goods shall be solde to the most advantage and Equally devyded
And that my sonnes Richard Nicholls and Jefferye Nicholls parts shall be put forth for them for profitt as my
overseer and my Executor shal thinke good tyll the(y) come to yeres
Also I appoynt my sonne Mychell Nicolls and Marie Nicols to be my executors,
And Edward Godden to be myne overseer
Wittnesses to the writing of this Edward Gooden and Thoms Bussher
Probatum fuit: 12th October 1596
Notes:
Margery Nicolls was buried at St. John in Thanet, Kent, on 11th September 1596.
Richard Nicholls and Mariott Toddie, widow, were married 31 May 1569 at St. John.
Only 2 children appear to have been baptised at St. John: 23 Apr 1570 Marie; 13 Aug 1573 Michael.
Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh Mason 4th February 2023
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