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Abstract of Will from Snave, Kent from Arthur Hussey’s Manuscripts

Will of Adam PARNELL of Snave, Kent 21 September 1484

Adam PARNELL of Snave, Tuesday before St Matthew (21 September) 1484.
Buried in churchyard.
High altar 8d. for tithes. To Light of High Cross 8d, of Brotherhood of St Mary 8d, and so yearly for three years.
Wife Agnes have three cows, one mare, four pigs, three quarters of corn and one quarter of barley and all my household things.
To Joane, Alice and Margarete my daughters four marcs (53s.4d.) to each.
Residue after paying debts, etc. to Hamon PARNELL and Thomas COLYN my Executors to dispose for my soul.
That wife Agnes have my chief tenement in which we live, with two acres of land, 11 acres of land called Oldclose, and ten acres lately obtained from John GRENHILL, during life of Agnes.
Son Simon have four acres of land in the parish of Snave, and to his heirs to ever, on condition he allow Robert DOD to occupy four acres of land which he bought of Margaret my wife in parish of Ivychurch.
That feoffees occupy my lands for six years, and the money to pay debts, etc, and after the six years, son Simon have the lands.
Witnesses – John MOSEDEN, Hamond GRENHILL, William GUYANAN.
Probate 1485. Consistory Court, Vol.3, fol. 56.

 

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