Will of Richard Posse

of Pluckley, Kent

Item my will and meaning is that my fower daughters vizt. Franncis, Anne, Dorothy and Jane shall have the profitt and felling of my woods called Iddenden woods conteyning by Estimacon twenty Acres more or lesse and that they shall have the fall of it three tymes Provided allwaies they fell it within thirty and sixe yeares next after my decease And my will is that the money and profitt of the sayd wood be equally devided betweene my fower daughters and that it remayne in my Executrix hands untill they shall severally attayne to the age of one and twenty yeares or within sixe moneths after their severall dayes of marriage

Item my will and meaning is that if it shall happen my wife shall be with child of a daughter at the makeing of this my last will that the sayd daughter shall have her share proportionably out of the profit of the sayd woods according to the rest of my fower daughters And if it shall happen that any of my sayd daughters shall dye before they attayne to the age of one and twenty years then my will is that their part or share shall be equally devided betweene the survivors

Item my will and meaning is that Dorothy my wife shall at the severall tymes of felling have the Oakes that are fitting to be felled at her owne dispose towards the payment of my debts
Item my will is that after the sixe and thirty yeares for the felling of the sayd woods called Iddenden Woods bee expired that the Fee simple and Inheritance come to my heyres Males
And for want of such issue to my daughters joyntly and severally to be devided equally betweene them

Item all the rest of my goods and chattells, household stuffe and moveables whatsoever, my debts and funerall expences being discharged I will and bequeath to Dorothy Posse my now wife whome I make sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament

In Witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the Eleventh day of September in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred forty and nyne
The marke of Richard Posse

Witnesses: Hugo? Barham - William Blinco - Steven Harp - The marke of Mary Bull

This Will was proved at Westminster the twenty seaventh day of June in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred fiftie three before the Judges for probate of wills and graunting of Administrations according to an Act of Parliament entitled “an Act for probate of wills and graunting Administrations” by the Oath of Dorothy Posse the Relicte of the sayd deceased to whome administration of all and singuler the goods, chattells & debts of the sayd deceased which any manner of way concerne the same will was graunted & committed shee being first legally sworne by virtue of a Commission in that behalfe issued forth well and faithfully to Administer the same.
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Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 27th September 2020

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