Pordage Will 1665

Will of Joseph Pordage

of Graveney, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC/16/275 P/1 or: PRC/17/72/167
Submitted by Steve Clarke

In the yeare of our lord God June the 2nd 1665 This is the Last will and Testament of Joseph Pordage
I give my sole [soul] to the Lord Jesus Christ and my body to the earth I being in good and perfect memory

I give to my Cusen John Tailler and his brother Robart Tailler my house and all the Land with all the apertenans [appurtenances] there unto belonging to them and there ayers [heirs] for ever being in esling? being the sounes [sons] of Tho: Tailler

I give my ounkel Tho: Tailler all my Shop
I give to his wife t[w]o of she[e]ts
I give to Anne Tailler dafter [daughter] of Thomas Tailler five pounds
I give to my ounkel Tho: Tanner all my whering [wearing] wollen clothes
I give to Joseph Michell weife [wife] ten shillings

I give all my pe[w]ter to my Cusen John Tailler and his brother Robart Tailler the sounes of Tho: Tailler, all my pe[w]ter to be equally devided betwixt them
I give to them that shall lay me forth t[w]o shillings

I give to my Cusen John Tailler the sun of Tho: Tailler all the rest of my moveables, deats [debts] dues and demands what soe ever
and see I admite my sold [soul] unto God and my body to the earth to bee desently buryed by my Cusen John Tailler the Sun of Tho: Tailler and hee to bee my [w]hole Excayter [Executor]

in wheare unto I sett my hand and Seall Joseph Pordage his mark
Sealled and delivered in present [the presence] of Crisin Allen - Mary Michell her marke

Probatum fuit: 14th June 1665

Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 26th June 2021

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