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Medieval Kent P.C.C. Will Transcription by L. L. Duncan - Book 56 page 1

ROBERT SYMPSON, Will 7 August 1471

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ROBERT SYMPSON, citizen and draper of London 7 August 1471. To be buried in the church of Sent Benett Fynk wher
I am parisshen, on the south side of the high auter willing that once my burying place ther be made a Tombe of marble and ouer that a comely presbitery of stonewerk and also that the South Chapell ther and South Ile be garynshed, made and amended by the advice of myn executours. [Directs a perpetual chantry at the altar in the south chapell and leaves bequests to the churches of Wysebic Elme and Walsokyn].
To the church of Bromle [Bromley] in Kent 20 marc to have my soule ther praied for.
Johane my wife. To Maister John Recerby my bible &e &e.
Last will: Land and Mille at Stratford, tenement and wharf called Venours Wharf in London, tenement called the Swan in parish of Saint Dionise Bakchurch.
All my rent, londes and tenements in Merden [Marden], and Bochon Mounchesey [Boughton Monchelsea] in Kent to be sold for an obit. The said manor lands and tenements at Bromley. The nownage of Robert my sonne. [no other Kent connection].
Proved 6 November 1471. (P.C.C. 3 Wattys)

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