Pysing Will 1634

Will of Jonas Pysing

of Chilham, Kent

Source: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives PRC 17/69/426
Submitted by Steve Clarke

In the name of God Amen I Jonas Pysinge of the p[ar]ish of Chilham in the County of Kent Labourer beinge sicke in body but in p'fect memory (thancks be unto God) doe make this to be my Last will in manner followinge
First I doe Comend my sowle into the hands of God my maker Saviour and Comforter the holy Trinity in unity hoping of salvacon in and by the meritorious passion of my alone Saviour Jesus Christ the second p[er]son in the Trinity and Secondly I doe Leave my body to the earth of whence it came and to be decently interred and buried in the Churchyard of Chilham aforesaid where God shall give leave by the appointment of my executrix hereafter named

Item I doe will unto Thomas Pysinge, Jonas Pysinge and Elizabeth Pysinge my three Children unto every of them Forty shillings a peece of good English mony and to be paid unto every of them by my said executrix as my said Children sonne or daughter shall come to his or her age of one and twenty yeeres and not before

All the rest and residue of my p[er]sonall estate, howshold goods, Cattell and Chattells whatsoever (my debts and Legacyes first paid and my buryall discharged) I will wholy unto Elizabeth Pysinge my wellbeloved wife whom I doe make the sole Executrix of this my last will

And in wittnes thereof I have heerunto sett my hand and seale dated the two and twentith day of May in the tenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the faith &c. 1634 hereby revokinge all wills by me at any time formerly made
Jonas Pysinge his marke and seale
Sealed and delivered as my last will in the prsence of:
Tho : Brodnax and Christofer Denne?

Probatum fuit: 21st June 1634

Notes:
Jonas Pising was buried at St. Mary, Chilham, Kent on 26 May 1634.
Jonas Pysing married Elizabeth Phonell 25 Dec 1613 at St. Lawrence, Godmersham, Kent.
Their children (baptised at St. Lawrence, Godmersham): 8 Jan 1619/20 Thomas; and 10 May 1624 Jonas;
- and - at St. Mary, Chilham: 25 Apr 1627 Elizabeth.

Transcribed by Mrs. Shelagh A. Mason, 16th April 2023

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