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The Blaker Society © Robert Buckhole of Preston, 1578
BLAKER WILLS

Lewes Archdeaconry Book A 7, f. 93

Robert
Buckhole
In the name of god amen / the xviij date of December An d’ni 1578 I
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Robert Buckhole of Preston, beinge sycke in body but (god be thanked)
of pfect mind and memory / doe make this my last will and Testament in
mann and forme followinge viz’ / First I bequeth my soule vnto almighty
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god my maker and redem , and my bodie to be buried in the Church yard
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of Preston’: Item I geve and bequeth vnto George Buckhole my sonne,
three score sheepe, wherof forty are at Patcham and tenn weathers, tenne
Ewes a pied heffer, a payre of quarne stones to grind mault, a brasse pot,
a newe cawdren’ three pewter platters, three pewter dishes a sawcer a
candlesticke a salt seller, a kettell a possnet, a chaffingdisge three
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chesse, tenne payre of sheet , a cou let a payre of blanket , ij table clothes
ij table napkins, a fether bolster, a pillowe, twenty shilling toward the
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bynge of a bed, a payre of cart wheeles, a courbe for awell, Timber to fyll
the syde and heade of his barne and bourd to close it, and half my wood
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that is standinge at Albourne / also my Wife’s best cassock savinge one /
Item wheras my wif did geve to Margret Wooden’ my maide twenty
shilling and a payre of sheet / I will that she +have+ the same / And I
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geve her more forty shilling and ij payre of sheet . Item I geve to eu y
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one of my godchildren’ xijd’ apece / Ite’ I will that George my sonne
shall have half my ground that I have by lease at Albourne duringe the
whole yeres payinge half the rent / Item the Resadewe of all my good &
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debt moueable and vnmoveable I geve and bequeth vnto James Buckhole
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my sonne, whome I mak my whole executor of this my last will and
Testament to fullfill yt to the true intent therof / and I make my overseres
of this my last will and Testament / George Kelner vicar of Preston’ &
Edward Kempt Witnesses to this my will George Kelner Edward Kempt
Richard Tester w others
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Probatu’ fuit hoc Testamentu’ cora’ me Will’mo Coell
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Commissario &c’ xix die Marcij ano d’ni 1578

This testament was proved before me, William Coell, commissary
&c., the 19th day of March in the year of the Lord 1578
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36 Old Style = 19 March 1579
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