To Cicelie my wife all such goods as she brought unto me in marriage, now remaining at the house where I now do dwell & a bushel of wheaten meal of the best, a gallon of butter, 2 cheeses & a bushel of apples yearly during her life if she remain unmarried.

To Thomas Boldinge my godson, Willyam Cheesse son of Olive Cheesse, & to Thomas Cullinge my godson, to every of them a lamb.

To John Brighte my godson & to all other godchildren, 12d apiece.

To Margarett Allen, servant to Thomas Boldinge my son, 40/-.

To Willyam Boldinge my son œ20, to be paid to him his heirs or assigns by my son Thomas or his assigns in form as follows, that is to say œ5, parcel thereof, at the feast of the nativity of St John the Baptist next after my death, & yearly afterwards at the said feasts... œ5, until the foresaid œ20 shall be paid; & for the lack of payment my will is that it shall be lawfull to & for the said Willyam my son & his heirs & assigns to stress & strain in and upon my lands & the same distresses to withold & keep irreplegiable until the same shall be fully paid with all costs & damages by that occasion had & sustained.

The said Willyam my son shall within one quarter of a year next after my decease seal & deliver as his deed unto Thomas my son his heirs & assigns, a good & sufficient release of all his interest & right that he might claim to have out of my lands & tenements; & if upon request made to him by my said son Thomas or his assigns, he refuse to do so, then hee shall lose the benefit of this my Will & of the œ20 before given to him...

To my said wife all my wood & other goods now being in or at the house where I now do dwell.

All the rest of my goods & cattalls unbequeathed I give & bequeath to Thomas Boldinge my son, whom I make executor of this my present Will & Testament.

To the said Thomas Boldinge my son my tenements, houses & lands with the appurtenances, in the parishes of Crondall & Godmersham in the County of Kent to be had & holden to him & to his heirs & assigns in fee simple...

Wits. John Edwards, Notary, Sampson Lent, Paule Ireland.

Probate 12 June 1588 by oath of John Edwards, notary public, & Paule Ireland wits (to the will).. granted to the executor.

The Inventory of the goods of Thomas Boldyng late of the parish of St Mildred in the cyty of Canterbury made and prysed the xxviij day of June 1588

ffyrst ij cubborde prysed at xxs

It. a cow prysed at xxxs

It. ij mares prysed at iijœ

It. a featherbed prysed at xs

ffyrst in the chamber over the hall a joined bedstedle & a trockle bedstedle, ij old fetherbeds one flockbed iij blanketts iij coverletts, iij bolsters & vj pyllowes iijœ vjs viijd

 It viij payer of sheetes xxvjs vijd

 It vij cheste, a lytle joined table, ij chayers, a shaven chayer, & fyve joined stooles xxvjs vijd

 It. all the paynted clothes & viij cusshens vjs viijd

 It. all his apparell xls

 It. iij table clothes, a dozen of table napkyns & vj old pyllow cotes viijs

 It. a stone pott covered & footed with silver & a razer? edged with sylver xs

It a bedstedle, a matt, an old fetherbed, ij blanketts, ij bolsters & a lytle downe coverlet xijs iijd

It. ij brasse potts, iij brode pannes, ix keatells greate & small, ij laten* bassons, ix latten* candlestyke, ij chafynge dyshes, ij st....., a morter & pestle, a warmynge panne, a payer of spyuls? & an old jack xxvjs vjd

It in petwer ij quart hooped potts, a basson & cover?, iij pyul potts, a wyne quart pott, tenne pewter platters, xij greate pewter dyshes, iij frute? dyshes, vj sawsers, a pewter candlestyke, iij water? potts & a little drynkynge cuppe of pewter xxijs

It a lytle payer of racks, ij spytls? a pott hanger, ij andyrons, ij payer of tongs, a fyre shovell, a fyre rake, a try..e?, a fryenge panne, ij dryppynge pans, iij tables, a tolve? fyve payles fyve wooden platters, a grate, ij choppynge knyves, an old pytcher & certen old plankes with other old lumber xijs vjd

It. a table with ij tressels & a forme ijs

It. a knedynge truss? with a cover.

It. elves? & sollyng? for beere xxd

It. a rope? & other lumber xxd

Sum xixœ vs xd

*Latten - a type of fine brass

and her minde was that Anne Hauke, daughter of John Hauke of St Mary Bredyn should have also.

She gave unto the said Susan Cheese one gold ringe and xx of silver ....., arpyn? of silver a black cloth gown, a blacke appron of silke and halfe her wearinge linen.

And that the other halfe of her wearing linen she willed the willed? to Mary Hauke her daughters daughter And also she willed unto the said Mary Hauke one other blacke gown next unto her best gowne and her best red petticoate ap?.. of silver h... and a blacke apron.

Item she willed to John Hauke her daughters son and William Hauke his brother should have her great chest standing by bedside between them.

Item she willed unto the said John Hauke one angel of gold and also a noble of English monie owing unto her by Thomas Bowldinge of Crondall.

Item she willed to the said William Hauke one silver .....

Item she willed unto Rychard Cheese and Thomas Hauke her daughters sons to either of them one other ....

Item she willed unto Mary Hauke the wife of the said John Hauke her best gowne. Item she willed unto mother Sittell her other Setigowne?

Item she willed unto Walter Brooke her kynsman and Jane? his wyfe two pewter dishes and to the sonne of the said Walter Brooke xijs,xiijd of lawfull English monie.

She willed unto Christopher Hauke her kynsman one pewter dish All the residue of her goodes, money, chattel and household stuff whatsoever she had.

She gave and bequeathed unto John Hauke, Rychard Cheese, Mary Hauke, Thomas Hauke, Roger Hauke, Rychard Hauke, Mary Cheese, Chrystopher Hauke, Susan Cheese, and Mary Hauke her ....... to be equally divided amongst them. There beinge witness hereunto James Annekyn?, John Tanner, and mother Sittell; James Annikin, John Tanner his marke.