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

Will of Ingram JEKYN of Alkham, Kent 25 July 1527

Ingram JEKYN of Alkeham, 25 July 1527.
Buried in churchyard at the west door.
High altar 20d.
To the church 20s. to buy a Canopy to be borne with four staves over the sacrament.
For seven years an Obit be kept in the church yearly, with three masses. Placebo and Dirige, two bushels of wheat to make bread, and two of malt to make ale to refresh poor people and others. The Obit to be kept the Thursday in Passion Week.
A priest sing for my soul, friends, for a year in the church £6.13.4s. and Dom John THEXTON to have that service before any other priest if it please him.
That five masses be sung at Scale Celi within the Friars Augustine Canterbury, also to them, the Grey Friars, Friar Preachers and St Radegunds, beside Dover, each 3s.4d. to sing or say generally in their places – Mass of Requiem with Placebo and Dirige for my soul and all Christian souls, within a month after my death.
Wife Marione my gray ambling horse, two kine, 12 ewes, one acre of wheat, half my barley, with £3s.6d.8d. and half household stuff.
Herry my son half my household stuff, and barley, two bullocks, two horses, a waine, plough with all thereto, 100 sheep to remain in ferme with my chief tenant until Herry is 19.
My great spit to remain with my house.
If son die all assigned to him to my daughters to be shoft (divided) amongst them.
Joane, Isabelle, Robage, Juliane, each six ewes and seven marcs (£4.13s.4d) at marriage. If all die to my son Herry.
Katherine my daughter a cow, 12 ewes. Alice my daughter the remainder promised to her at her marriage.
Dom Thomas HAWT, canon 20s, that he shall endevore to teach my son Herry to write and read and evidence, both in English and Latin.
Margaret my sister a seame of wheat and of malt.
Those two kine in hands of Thomas WALTON of Hith, one to the parish church there, the other to Nicholas MILLE there.
Residue after debts paid to son Herry to dispose for my soul, friends.
Executors – John JOLL have 6s.8d. and Robert JEKYN (he to have my gray horse called Styrle) with Mgr. John WEBB, vicar of Alkham and John LUSSYNTON of Hawkinge overseers, each have 6s.8d.
Witnesses – Dom John THEXTON, Thomas COLLETT, John WYNFELD.
Feoffees of lands, tenements – John COLLEY, William WOLETT, Thomas JOLL, with John HOLEBENE lately deceased.
Wife Marione have sufficient of my goods to repair my place and housing both at South Alkeham and North Alkeham, before she depart from my chief tenement, also all income for her own use from my tenement, lands, at South Alkeham during her life if sole, also four loads of wood yearly out of Westhall.
My chief tenement with lands be let to ferme, with 100 sheep thereto, money to use of my son Herry until 19, and Marione to have it in ferme before any other.
My chief tenement with lands at North Alkeham and South Alkeham, when Marione be dead or marry to son Herry at 19 and his lawful issue, in default to eldest son of Robert JEKYN and his lawful issue, in default to the next brother and lawful male issue, in default to heirs male of Ingram, son of Katherine my eldest daughter.
Probate 12 Octber1527. Archdeaconry Vol.17, fol. 335-7.

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