County: Kent
Code: D2794
Reference: Maidstone, Kent History and Library Centre: PRC 16/2/1515/353
Function: Will
Jn the name off god Amen~ / / The xvj daye off June in þe yere off owre god Mle-CCCCC and xv / / J Thomas
Goodgrome off þe paryche off stockebere in þe Count~ off Kentt husbondma~ wt a hole Mynd and a
good Memory be-gynnythe my testamet~ in thys wysse / / Fyrst J be-quethe my sowle to god and
to owre blessyd lady þe vergyn~ and to alle þe holy Company off hevyn~ and my body to be beryyd inn
þe Churche-yerd off syntt Mary Mawdelen~ in þe paryche be-Forsayd / / Allso J be-quethe to þe ∧ hye awtter off þe same
paryche Churche For my For-Gotyn~ tythys and Oblacyons neclegently For-gotyn~ ‒ xij d allso to
owre lady lythe off þe same Churche My beste kowe Jtm~ to þe Crose lythe off þe same Churche ‒ xij d Jtm~
to Mary Mawdelen~ lythe in þe same Churche ‒ xij d Jt~ to syntt Elyn~ lythe ‒ xij d Jtm~ to synt Nycolas
lythe ‒ xij d Jt~ to þe trynyte lythe ‒ xij d
Thys ys þe laste wylle off me þe For-sayd Thomas Goodgrome Made þe daye and yere a-boue-sayd / / Fyrst J wylle
þt Thomas plott schalle haue A kowe and my best Gowne / / Allso J wylle þt John goodgrome my brothyr~ schal
haue ‒ ij peyre off schetes nothyr~ off þe beste nor off þe werste / / Allso my brothyr~ John Goodgrome schalle haue
my nexte beste gowne & my Cheste / / Allso J be-quethe and Geue to my Mothyr~ & to my syster Elizabethe alle
my Jnstuffe eqally to be devydyd be-twene them / / Allso J wylle þt My Mothyr schalle haue ‒ xxvj s viij d
off good and lawffulle Mony off ynglond / / Jt~ J wylle þt Elizabethe my syster schalle haue a kowe and
xxvj s viij d off lawffulle Mony off ynglond / / Allso J wylle þt myne executor~ schalle Cawse Tryntalle
to be seyd or~ songe in þe paryche Churche be-For~-sayd att my beryng & att my Monythe Mynde or~ as schortly
as hytt maye be affter / / Allso J wylle þt my executor~ schalle haue ‒ liij s iiij d to kepe a Obytt in þe paryche
Churche off Stockebery þe space off ‒ viij yere euery yere ‒ vj s viij d / / Allso J wylle þt my executor~ schalle
Cawse my pyllgrymage to be done to owre lady off wallsyngam~ & to syntt Awdrye off Ely / / Alle-so
J be-quethe to my ij god chylldryn~ & iij off my wyffes ‒ ij quaters and a hallffe off barley / / allso J wylle þt
Mye owys þt bethe to Ferme wt Thomas Cokelett in-Medyatly affter lamas nexte Commyng~ to be delyueryd
[...] to þe Churche off Stockebery & hallffe to þe paryche Churche off hallstow / / and ‒ xx owys wt Man off [...]
& x owys wt John yonge off Raynam & affter lomas hallffe to Stockebery churche & hallffe to hallstow churche
[dorse]The Resedew off My goodes natt be-quethe My dettes and my be-questes payd J Geue and be-quethe
to John Goodgrome my brothyr the wyche J ordene And Make myne executor~ and he to
dyspose hytt Fore my sowlle helthe My wyffes sowlle & alle good Crystyn~ Sowlles wyttenes
sir Roberte byllton~ vykery off Stockebery Rychard Kemyslay Thomas plott John Goodgrome
the yonger~ and othyr~ Moo