Stephen Cheeseman senior 1 January 1489. To be buried in the Chapel of St Mary near the grave of Iden my wife. To the high altar for tithes 3s 4d & to each parish clerk 6d; the Brotherhood of Holy Cross & of St George 8d each.
   To Joan the daughter of Stephen my son £10. Wife Isabelle £10, three silver cups, 3000 billets, my red cloak, also the red girdle for life; then the girdle to the repair of the nave of the church.
   Son Stephen my best padded breeches (bombicinium) & second salet (helmet) best cloak, second girdle of murray (ie reddish purple or mulberry) colour with silver mounts, second cloak, six silver cups & a maser.
   Son Peter my best girdle of murray colour with silver mounts, second padded breeches & salet, cloak, six silver cups and a maser.
   Residue of household things to be divided into four parts viz (1) to wife Isabella (2) son Peter (3) son Stephen & (4) disposed for my soul. Executors: sons Peter & Stephen with James Bate supevisor. Feoffees – son Peter & James Bate. 
   Son Stephen my chief messuage with a garden, from the broken post there beside the kitchen as far as the pales standing there alongside of the post, & so fronting three unto another post standing beside the stable; one acre of land at the place called Westbroke towards the land of Richard Fytypace esquire to the southeast; three acres recently bought from Simon Makett situated at Dengemarsh; 3 acres & a half recently obtained from Herbert Finche; 3 rods of land at Legye & one kydell with cabin there standing as the marks & bounds show & to his heirs for ever.
   Son Peter the tenement in which he now lives 4s yearly rent from half an acre formerly Stokhams near the tenement of Laurence Gros; one acre and half at Westbroke, 5 acres obtained from Richd Aylewyn, one acre & half called Esmerett and 2 acres called Thurdrave at Dengemarsh & to his heirs for ever.
   Roger the son of Stephen to have when 21 my tenement with lands at Dengemarsh also the land there called Northnover, & ten acres at Southmede & to his heirs for ever but if Roger die before 21 then to be sold & the money disposed for my soul, Iden my wife, father & mother etc & other works of charity. Witnesses: Thos Buntyng, John Adowne, John Wulvyn.
Prob. 30 April 1489. Vol 3 fol 219

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