Imprimis I give to the poor of the parish of St John Baptist in the Isle of Thanet where I was born three pounds of lawful English money And to the poor of the parish where I shall die I give twenty shillings of like money to be distributed by my Executor within three months next after my decease by and with the asurance and advice of the Minster and Churchwardens of the same several parishes
Item I give to my dear and well beloved Brother Mr Valentine Petit the sum of twenty pounds of
lawful English money; to be paid within one year next after my decease
And to his four children Susanna, Elizabeth, Clement and Valentine Petit I give five pounds a piece of like money to buy each of
them a piece of plate to be bought and delivered by my executor unto the said children within one year next after my decease
And my will is that the said Valentine Petit acquittance acknowledging the receipt of the said four pieces of plate to his said children shall be full and sufficient discharge to my Executor for the same and no further challenge or demand to be therefore had or made of against heirs by them the said four children or any of them
Item I give to my Sister-in-law Elizabeth Petit wife of my said brother Valentine Petit and to my Nephew Mr Henry Petit and to Anne his wife to each of them a ring of gold of the value of thirty shillings of lawful English money to wear as Tokens of my Love and in remembrance of me
Item I give unto to my niece Susanna Petit daughter of my said Brother Valentine my box inlaid in the lid thereof; with all the Linen
that now is and usually lieth in it
Item I give to my dear and well beloved Brother Mr Paul Petit forty pounds of lawful English money
And to Anne his wife my Sister-in-law five pounds of like money as a remembrance of my love to her
Item I give to Valentine Pettit, Anne Petit, Paul Petit and Henry Petit children of said
brother Paul Petit ten pounds apiece of lawful English money
And I give and bequeath unto my God-daughter Mary Petit daughter of my said brother Paul Petit the
sum of four score pounds of like lawful money of England
All with fore mentioned legacies given to the children of my said brother Paul Pettit I will shall be paid unto
them at their several ages of one and twenty years or date of marriage which shall
first happen? if Mrs Elizabeth Parker my Sister shall be then dead otherwise within three
months next after her my said Sister Parker decease and not before
Item I further give to my said God-daughter Mary Petit the daughter of my said Brother Paul Petit my Case of Drawers, My black Trunk and my Trunk covered in a hairy skin; with all that now is or .... to lie in the same last mentioned trunk to be delivered to her within one year next after my decease if she shall then be of discretion to use the same otherwise at her age of sixteen years at the furthest
Item I give and bequeath to my for named Sister Elizabeth Parker for her and her only better livelihood maintenance and
subsistence the sum of seven pounds of lawful English money yearly and every year
during the term of the natural life of my brother in law Mr William Parker her
husband if my said Sister shall so long (live?) since, quarterly to be paid at the foremost
usual Feasts in the year That is to say the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
The annuciation of the blessed virgin Mary, The nativity of St John Baptist and St
Michael The archangel by equal persons or when twenty days next after every of the
said Feasts; to will thirty shillings of every payment by my Executor his executors or
Administrators to be paid unto her own hands, and my will is that her Acquittance
alone without her said husband shall be sufficient discharge from time to time to my
Executor for the payment hereof
And after the death my said Brother-in-law William Parker (if my said Sister shall survive him) I give unto my said Sister Elizabeth
Parker the sum of eight pounds of lawful English money yearly and every year
during her natural life to be paid unto her by my said Executor at her foremost usual
Feasts before mentioned by equal persons or within twenty days next after every of
the said Feasts for her maintenance and livelihood;
which said Annual payments or legacies I devise may be raised by my executor out of the profits to be made and
raised of the legacies herein formerly given to his five children which my firm ...
in him reposed that he will duly perform according to his faithful promise on behalf
to me made for ever means of raising the said payments I have now none left; my
other Legacies considered
last of all I give to my said Brother Parker and to my Sister his wife to each of them a gold Ring of twenty shillings value to wear in
rememberance of me
Provided always and my will and meaning is that if my said Brother-in-law William Parker on his said wife’s life time or his said
wife after his decease shall so much as and although an offer to make sell off; alienate or alter the
said annual payments or either of them at my time after my decease That then and
from henceforth the said annual payments and either of them shall cease and be no
longer paid; any clause desire or bequeath herein contained to be contrary
notwithstanding
And my will further is that the first payment of the said annual payments shall not be made or paid until the second Feasts of the Feasts
aforesaid after my decease
And the rest and residue of my goods chattels And personal estate not be me herein before willed And bequeathed I wholly give And devise to my foresaid loving Brother Mr Paul Petit whom I do make constitute and appoint to be sole executor of this my last will and testament desiring him to see the same truly performed according to my true intent and meaning herein declared and expressed hereby revoking all former wills by me theretofore made or declared
In witness whereof I have to every sheet of this my last will containing five sheets of paper
subscribed my name and to the top thereof set my seal dated the day and year first herein written
Signed, sealed published and declared by the said Mary Petit to be her last will and testament in the presence of
John Drayton - Ric: May
Memorand: It is not my intent or meaning that my foresaid Brother Parker shall have two annual payments of three pounds and eight pounds paid her at one and the same time But only three pounds per Annum and during the life of her now husband And after his death yearly the sum of forty shillings per Annum added I hereunto do make .... the full annual payment of eight pounds per Annum.
Latin Probate 1646
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