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Will detail

Will of Alice Mathie of Warbleton

Date signed: 12 Dec 1577, Probate date: 20 Mar 1578

Sick and weak in body but of good and perfect memory, First I will give and bequeath my soul into the hands of Almighty God my maker believing and trusting by the merits and worthiness of the death of his son Jesus Christ my only saviour and redeemer to be partaker of the kingdom of heaven and to have a joyful resurrection both of body and soul to eternal life and therefore I will my body to the earth from which it came.Mbr< To Thomas Sheffield and Johan his wife and their heirs all that my tenement in Warbleton with the appurtenances in which I now dwell in called Sin Beckett and Tom Beckett otherwise Blackenelhall containing four acres with house and garden.

To Alice Sheffield a pair of sheets a coverlet a blanket a platter and a pan and my best russet petticoat.

To Susan Sheffield and another daughter of Thomas a sheet and a blanket and a pewter dish and a russett frock.

To Katherine Sheffield a sheet a pewter dish and a chaffing-dish.

To Elizabeth Sheffield a pewter dish a skimmer a candlestick and a salt cellar.

To Roger Sheffield a candlestick.

To my daughter Elizabeth Cad my russet petticoat the which I do wear a working days a red petticoat a sheet and the painted tester and the bedstead wherein I now lie.

To John son of Mathye Cade a pair canvas sheets a 'kettle my best iron pot a candlestick a wooden salt cellar and a blanket.

To Elisabeth daughter of Mathye Cad my middlemost chest the which is without a lock.

Executor and residuary legatee my son-in-law Thomas Sheffield.

Witnesses: John Lek minister John Cad Paul Water with more.

Transcribed by:

Rosie Ansell.

Notes about this will:

Testator was buried 17 December 1577.

Source:

Unknown.

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