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Medieval &
Tudor Kent P.C.C. Wills Transcriptions
by L.
L. Duncan -
Book 12
page 168
William Catelyn - Will 4
September 1499
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13. Moone
4 Septembre 1499. William Catelyn of West Malling.
To be buryed in the body of the church of the monastery of Malling called the
?Nosse that is to say at the South ende of the awter byfore the ymage of oure
Lady of Petie yf my lady the Abbes will licens it so to be. And if it be so
that my seid body thabbes will nott licens my body to be buried ther or ells
that it please God that I decesse not at Malling nor nere abouyte it Thene I
remytte the burying of my body to soche a conveynent place as shalbe thought
by Elizabeth my wif. I bequeth to the high awter of the monastery of Malling
for my tithes necligently forgoten or slowthed 6/8. And to my lady abbes for
breking of the grounde iff my body be buried ther 6/8.
And for as moche as I have long season had a grete parte of my
livying and ben gretly holpe by the lyveleide of Elizabeth my wif and for the
grete love and confidence betwene my seid wif and me I holly geve bequeith and
commyte unto the seid Elizabeth all the Residue of my goodes cornes and
catallis to ordre and distribute to hirselfe and amonge oure children as she
semeth beste and also to pay withall all suche detts as ar expressed in my
boke covered with a yelow coveryng for in the booke ur expressed all that be
my detts that I canne rememebr me of.
The which Elizabeth my wif I make and ordayne my sole executrice
to do for me and for oure children as she thinkith best to please God and as
she wolde I shuld do for her if the case requyred like.
These witnesse Maistr Thos Nevell, Vicar of
Malling, Sr Thos Millis, parson of Leyborne. By me Willm
Catelyn written with my owne hand.
Probate coram magro Willo Barvus doctore Progative ecclie Xti.
Cant sede Archepali ucan commissario 6 Dec 1500 juramenti Elizabeth relict yt
executric.
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