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Medieval & Tudor Kent C.C.C. Will Transcription by L. L. Duncan - Book 58 page 16

Thomas AYLEWYN - Will 16 January 1466
                                                         
Typed up by Dawn Weeks August 2004
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Thomas Aylewyn 16 Jan 1466-7. All those jewels (jocalia) which late were my fathers, given & willed to John my son by the assignment of Cristine late wife of James Aylewyn my father & are in the custody of Andrew Bate & Thos Caxton my executors until son John come to the age of 21, then John to have them but if John die before 21 then all to be sold & the money disposed in works of charity for my soul, son John, my parents the same Cristine & all the faithful departed except 12 silver cups to Andrew Bate & Thos Caxton. 
   To Dom. Laurence Crane 3s 4d & to each other priest serving in the church 12d. To Robert Lucas 3s 4d & to William Brownflet 12d. To the Brotherhood of Holy Trinity 3s 4d, to the Brotherhood of St George 20d; to the Mass of Jesus 13s 4d, to the work (fabrice) of the church viz for a small set of vestments there to be improved 10 marcs (£6.13.4) if the same set shall be then provided within two years before arranged in the church by my executors so that my soul be remembered every Sunday among the other benefactors of this church. 
   Wife Agnes to have from the money received for the messuage called Honywode £10. Andrew Bate & Thos Caxton my executors each of them one silver box (cassea) six pieces of silver & 13s 4d. Feoffees: Vincent Sedle, Thos Caxton, Thos Baker, Simon Bate. Wife Agnes have all my lands & tenements etc & to her assigns for ever but at her death my chief messuage to Thomas Thunder, Wm Stokham, Robert Howgh & Thos Caxton according to deed dated 28 Oct. 1466. Wife Agnes to have for life a certain stable with garden & land annexed near the garden of John Scarlys & the land which Henry Bate now holds to farm. 
   From the profits of my land son John to be supported in all things necessary until he is sixteen & to be in the custody of his mother but when John my son is 21 he shall have all the lands assigned for his bringing up. 
   A priest to celebrate for me in the church for my soul, wife & children, James Aylewyn my father & his wives, Dom. Andre Aylewyn priest, Joan Hoghelyn, Robert Stonestrete, Thomas Godfrey etc.
Prob 18 Feb 1467. Vol 2 fol 172

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