I will and give the poore of the said Parish of East Peckham twenty shillings of lawfull money of England to bee paid to the Churchwardens
of the same Parish and by them to bee distributed amongest the said Poore within short tyme after my death
Item I will and give to Richard Pattenden, James Pattenden and Thomas Pattenden my Brothers in remembrance of my love towards them
the sum of tenn shillings apeece to bee paid unto them within short tyme after my death by mine Executrix
Item I will and give to Sarah my Daughter for the sume of tenn poundes of lawfull money of England to bee paid unto her by mine
Executrix att her age of Fifteene yeares
Item I will and give to Mary my Daughter the like sume of tenn poundes of like lawfull money of England to bee paid unto her by
mine Executrix att her age of Fifteene yeares
Item I will and give to Susanna my Daughter the sume of twenty poundes of lawfull money of England to bee paid unto her att her age
of fifteene yeares by mine Executrix
And my Will is that if the said Sara shall happen to dye before she shall have attained the said age of fifteene yeares that then the legacie before given unto her, shall remayne and bee paid by mine Executrix equally to and amongst the said Mary and Susanna her Sisters or to the survivor of them the whose at such tyme as the said Sarah would have attained her age as aforesaid if she had lived
And if the said Mary my daughter shall happen to dye before she shall attaine her said age of Fifteene yeares that then the Legacie before given unto her shall remaine and bee paid equally to and amongest the said Sarah and Susanna my daughters and to the Survivour of them the whole, at such tyme as the said [Mary] would have attained her said age if she had lived by mine Executrix
And my will is if the said Susanna my daughter shall happen to dye before she shall attaine her age of Fifteene yeares That then the Legacie of twenty pounds before given That then the Legacie of twenty pounds before given unto her shall remaine and bee paid equally to and amongest the said Sara and Mary my daughters or to the survivour of them the whole att such tyme as the said Susanna my daughter would have attained her said Age if she had lived
And my will is that my said three daughters upon receipt of theire said legacies shall seale subscribe and deliver severall acquittances or discharges accordinge to Lawe, which said Acquittances (although my said daughters shalbe under the age of one and Twenty yeares) shalbe a sufficient discharge to my said Executrix
Item I will and give alsoe to the said Sara, Mary and Susanna my daughters to each and every one of them fower peeces of my greatest pewter, one payre of my best sheets and one joyned Chest
The residue and all other my goods Cattell householde Stuffe and Chattells of what Nature or kind soever I wholly leave to Sara my
loveinge wife
And I make and ordaine her the said Sarah my wife to bee the sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament to see the
same proved my debts and legacies truly paid and discharged, and my body decently to be brought to the Earth and buried
This is alsoe the last Will of mee the said Stephan Pattenden the elder made and declared the day and yeare first before written touchinge the orderinge and disposeinge of all and singuler my Lands and Tenements which I doe order and dispose of in manner and forme followeinge (that is to say)
I will give and devise to the said Sara and Mary my daughters equally to bee divided betweene them one Messuage or Tenement wherein William Luck now dwelleth and the Barne Edifices and buildinges, Closes yards, Gardens Orchards and three Crofts or parcells of Land with th[e ]appurten[a]nc[e]s thereto belonginge conteyneinge by estimacon fower Acres now in the Occupacon of the said William Lucke scituate lyeinge and beinge in East Peckham aforesaid To have and to hold the moytie [moiety] or one halfe of the said Messuage Tenements Lands and Pr[e]misses wth thappurtenncs unto the said Sara my daughter her heyres and Assignes forever And the other moytie or halfe of the said Messuage Tenements or Lands and premisses with thappurtenncs unto the said Mary my Daughter her heires and Assigns forever
Item I will devise & give to the said Susanna my daughter one Croft or parcell of Land commonly called Chettley crosse Croft with thappurtenncs conteynenge by estimacon twoe Acres now sowed with Flaxe lyeinge and beinge in East Peckham aforesaid To hold to the only use and behoofe of the said Susanna my daughter her heires and Assignes for ever
Provided allwayes if the said Sara my daughter shall happen to depart this life before she shall attaine her age of one and Twenty yeares leaveinge noe issue of her body lawfully to be begotten That then my will us that the said Moytie or halfe of the said Messuage Tenements and Lands with thappurtenncs before willed unto her the said Sara shall defrend and belonge to the said Mary and Susanna her Sisters equallie to bee devided betweene them and to theire respective heires
And if the said Mary my daughter shall depart this life before her age of one and Twenty yeares leaveinge noe issue of her body Then my will is That the said moytie or halfe of the said Messuage Tenements Lands and premisses before given unto her shall defrend and belonge to the said Sarah and Susanna her Sisters equally to bee divided betweene them and to their respective heires
And if the said Susanna shall happen to decease before her age of one and Twenty yeares leaveinge noe issue of her body lawfully to bee begotten Then my will is that he said Croft of Land before given unto her with thappurtenncs shall defrend and belonge to the said Sarah and Mary her Sisters equally to bee divided betweene them and to their respective heires
Item I will and give to Stephan my sonne all those my Lands arable meadowe and pasture
conteyneinge by estimacon twoe and thirty Acres lyeinge and beinge in the Parish of Hadlowe and Capell in the said County of Kent which
said Lands I late purchased of Harbert Crofts gent and his wife
To have and to hold all the same Lands with thappurtenncs unto the said Stephan my sonne his heires and Assignes for ever
Notwithstandinge my will is that the said Sarah my wife from the tyme of my death dureinge and untill the said Stephan my sonne shall attaine his age of fowerteene yeares if she my said wife shall keepe herselfe a widdow shall or may have hold receave and take upp the rents and proffitts of all and singuler my before menconed Tenements Lands and pr[e]misses (felling noe tymber or Tymber Trees thereupon) as well those before given to my said three daughters as those before given to my said sonne Stephan for and towards the maintenance of my said Children and theire Educacons and the better to enable my said wife to pay my debts and legacies
In Witnes whereof I the said Stephan Pattenden th'elder to this my Testament and last will written in three sheets of Paper to every of the
said sheets have subscribed my name and to the last sheete have sett to my seale, and have filed all the said sheetes togeather with a
labell of p[ar]chment whereto I have sett my seale the day and yeare first before written
Signum Stephi. Pattenden
Read sealed published and declared by the said Stephan Pattenden to be his Testament and last Will in the presence of
Geo: Hooper, William Deane and Stephen Butler
Probatum fuit: [Latin] 3rd August 1648
Note: Stephan Pattenden Senr. Householder buryed July 1 1648.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 1st April 2021
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