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.