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Abstract of St Lawrence Thanet Wills from Arthur Hussey’s Manuscripts

Will of Elisabeth COKELYN of St Lawrence Thanet 10 March 1496-7

Elisabeth COKELYN of St Lawrence in Thanet, 10 March 1496-7.
Buried in churchyard.
To every Light of which I am a Sister 4d.
   Alice wife of Stephen JENKYN my best cloak and my best girdle and my prayer beads of jett, and to their daughter Jone one superplectu (coverlet), one sheet and one small cistam (box or chest).
   Joan wife of Richard JORDEN a coverlet and my blodium (red) le freude, and one little pan (pallellan) and one transur (?bolster).
   Robert JORDAN have my cooking pot or six pieces of pewter at his choice.
   Residue to Executors, Stephen JENKYN and Robert JORDEN, to dispose for my soul.
   Probate 26 June 1497. Archdeaconry Vol.6, fol. 301.

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