Item my will is that Robert Claringboule William Spiner both of the parish of Elmsted shall have full power to sell any my piece of land called North Croft/Cross with the carvet thereunto belonging & my other piece of land called limeye & the such of any other lands adjoining to the said Lands for the discharging one annuity & other debts as they shall thereto fall & what assurances they shall make about the sale thereof I devise them as full power as if I had done it my self Concerning my two messuages & my other lands thereunto belonging my will is that Katherine my wife shall have the profit of them for the bringing up of my children until such time as my son Richard shall accomplish the age of one & twenty years
And when he shall
accomplish the age of one & twenty years my will is then the said two
messuages & the lands thereunto belonging to him & his heirs forever
Provided also & my will is that he shall pay unto every one of my four
daughters when he shall accomplish the said age Margery Mary Elizabeth &
Jane ten pounds a piece
if any of the four daughters do happen to die before
they shall receive their portion without any issue then my will is that her
or their portion so deceased shall be equally divided amongst the survivors
& if any of them deceased have any issue then to those children my will is
that he shall pay one of them every year as their age is the oldest first
and if my wife do live after my son Richard shall accomplish the age of one
& twenty years then my will is that she shall have the house & the lands now
in the occupation of Will Morgan that is to say the orchard & the piece of
land joining thereunto containing by estimation two acres & the hemp land at
the other side of the way adjoining unto the lands of George Impett All
the time of her natural life as long as she be then a widow provided always
and my will is that my wife shall not fell nor top any trees during the time
that she shall take the profit of any of my lands but such as is fit for the
repairing of the hedges & repairing the houses and that she shall leave the
house and buildings sufficiently repaired all the said time that she shall
have the use of them
Item I give unto Katherine my wife all my moveable goods whom I make my sole
executor of this my will she paying all my debts which are under the value
of forty shillings In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
the day & year before written
John Page witnesses hereunto John Dunkin William Morgan?
Probate: 30th March 1633 - Katherine Page executor
Notes:
John Page[3] buried at Elmsted on 8th March 1632/33
Catherine Page buried at Elmsted on 3rd January 1638/39
Carvet Carvett - a thick hedgerow or roadside copse
Tovet Tolvet Tofet etc - half a Bushel
Seam Seme Salme etc - 8 Bushels or a horse load
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