Page Will 1689

Will of Thomas Page

of Willesborough, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury Original will PRC/16/320 P/4
Transcribed by Maureen Rawson

In the name of God Amen I Thomas Page of Willesborow in the County of Kent Cordwayner being sicke in body but of sound and perfect memory praised be God doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following (that is to say)
First I commend my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator hopeing assuredly through the onely meritts of the Lord Jesus Christ my blessed Redeemer to receive the full pardon and free remission of all my sinnes and to be received into the Everlasting Kingdome when this mortall life shall have an end
And I will my body to the earth to be buried at the discrecon of my Executrix hereafter named And as touching that worldly Estate which the Lord in mercy hath been pleased to lend me I will and dispose thereof as followeth

Item I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my loveing wife dureing her naturall life All that one peece or p�cell of arable land whereon a smale Tenement or cottage lately stood containeing by estimacon halfe an acre more or lesse with thapp�tenances lieing and being in Hinxhill in the said County which I lately purchased of Thomas Barnes
And after her decease I give and bequeath the same unto my sonn George Page and his heires forever

Item I further give and bequeath unto my said sonn George Page after my said wifes decease the long table with eight joyned stooles thereunto belonging the presse Cubbard and the dresser as they are now standing and being in the hall of my now dwelling house in Willesborow aforesaid Item I will and appoint my said wife to pay unto my said sonn George Page and unto my daughter Elizabeth Page the summe of fifty pounds a peece of lawfull money of England at their sev�rall and respective ages of one and twenty yeares which was given and bequeathed unto them by the last will and testament of their Uncle William Cooke

Item I give and bequeath unto my said sonn George Page the summe of five pounds of lawfull money of England and unto my said daughter Elizabeth Page the summe of fifeteene pounds of like money to be paid unto them and either of them within sixe monthes next after my wifes decease

And lastly I make & ordaine the said Elizabeth my wife whole and sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament
And I doe hereby utterly disallow revoke and annull all and every other former Testaments wills legacies and bequeats by me in any wise before this time willled and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last will & testament

In witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the ninth day of January in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. the fourth Annoq din 1688
Thomas Page

Signed sealed published & declared by the said Thomas Page for & as his last will & testam�t In the presence of us who have hereunto in his p�sence subscribed our names as Witnesses
Joane Fearne her marke � Jo�n Simmonds � Edmund Sheafe

Probate 5 April 1689

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