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Medieval & Tudor Kent Wills at Lambeth - Book 24  Page 468

Walter PAULE / PAVELEY,  Will 21 Nov 1379

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Know all men that I WALTER PAULE (Paveley) Knight have given and granted and by my deed of feffement have confirmed to Mons. Stephen de Valoience, Knight, Thomas Brokhull, William Horne and John de Walton my manor of Stoutyngg with all its appertenances in the County of Kent to them and their heirs for ever. And confirmed to Mons. John de Gildeburgh Knt. Sire Wm. de Wyndesore, provost of Wyngham, Wm. Topclyue and Thos. de Brochull my manors of Boctone and Ditton in Kent to them and their heirs for ever. 
My full will is that if I die without heirs the aforesaid feoffees shall reenfeoffe Elizabeth my dear companion in all the said manors to her and her heirs and assigns for ever together with all my goods and chattels moveable and unmoveable and my will is that the said Elizabeth shall be charged to pay and settle all my debts etc. And this deed shall be held by Mons. John de Clyntone to certify my will to all men. Written in the abbey of Romeseye the 21st day of November the 3rd year of King Richard the Second sealed with the seal of my Arms. Prima Voluntas dicti Dni. Walteri Pauly. This is the whole will of Wauter Pauly. He wished that his feffers of his lands enfeoff Elizabeth his wife in his manors of Ditton and Stoutyngg. If there is no heir the reversion to be sold and expended for his soul and those of his ancestors in alms. Also he wished that with the manor of Boctone should be found five priests for 7 years for his and his ancestors. Also he wished that the Friars Preachers of London make two stones one above his father and mother and the other over his brother and that one be graven with two images one ‘arme entier en larmez de Pauly et lautre en lez armes de Pauly & de Seint Filbert partie’ and the stone of his brother with the arms of his brother with ‘le labil’. Also he wished that the said Friars Preachers ‘soient vint mars’ to pray for the souls of himself and his ancestors. Also he wished ‘q si il defaile et dieu face taunt q le corps ou le cuer purroit quenir en’ to England to be interred in the Chapel of Our Lady in the church of Boctone ‘enmy lu devaunt lauter’ and that the gable of the said chapel be made a new window with an image of Our Lady at the side of the window. Also he wished that his grandfather and grandmother have a stone of their Arms. Also he wished that for himself there should be a ‘piere quartile’ of the Arms of Pauly and of Burgherse. 
Also he wished that Thomas Brochul distribute all his goods aforesaid and that he have twenty marcs yearly out of the manor of Boctone for his life. Also that Eliot be paid all the debt due and the 20 marcs of my gift, Janyn 100s., Thomas 40s. Also that there be an image made of Poys of 10 marcs ‘arme eu mes armes quartille’ and ‘ofre devant’ Our Lady ‘ondircrofte’ at Caunterbery. And all the remainder I put under the trust and loyalty that I have in the said Thomas. 
No probate act is entered. (104b Sudbury).
NOTE: Walter de Pavely died possessed of Stowting 1 Edward III. Stephen de Burgherst died 3 Edward III possessed thereof and Sir Walter de Pavely K.G. died siezed 49 Edward III. (Hasted Vol. III p. 314). Boughton Aluph belonged to the Burghersh family and then Sir Walter de Pavely who died possessed of it 49 Edward III. (Hasted II p. 190). Ditton also belonged to Burghersh and then to Pavely.

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