[N3004] Extract of Last Will & Testament of Nicholas Hawlott
30 July 1505. Buried in the churchyard of Reculver. On the day of burial five masses: The Mass of St. Mary, of the Holy Spirit, of the Trinity, of the Name of Jesus, and of Requiem with exequies; also the same day there be distributed among the poor and needy, 6s. 8d. On the day of my trental thirty masses called the Trental and among the poor and sick, 6s. 8d.; on the day of my anniversary five masses as on the day of my burial. To the buying of a silver cross for the church, 26s. 8d.; to the Light of St. John the Baptist, 8d. That Isabelle -my wife have all the "utensilia" in the aule, camera, and kitchen, twenty-five ewes, two cows, one young ox, four quarters of corn and four of barley. Son John have twenty ewes at the next Feast of St. Michael after my death; and son Thomas twenty ewes when he is sixteen years of age; sons Robert and John have my small vessel or boat (naviculum) called The Cache, with all its apparatus, between them equally.. Ex'ors: sons Robert and John, also have residue of goods after paying debts, etc. Feoffees of my lands and tenements: James Hiks, Thomas Hawlott, John Evering, Richard Consaunt, Robert Hawlott. That son Robert have my tenement at Beltynge called Gefferays, twelve acres of arable land, twelve acres of pasture next to the same tenement; with a fiode-were and two ebbe werys (weirs). Son John have my place purchased from William But, a yard of land at Over Havyn, and the pasture called Blakisham. Wife Isabelle have and occupy for her life my tenement in Reculver street, with the pasture called Blahisham aforesaid limited unto John, and at her death son Thomas have the tenement in Reculver street. Also Isabelle have three acres at Stoomsoole, four acres at the Cross of Beltynge, three acres at Goldynge acre, two acres at the Culverhouse, until son Thomas is twenty-one years old, then Thomas have the same, but if he die before twenty-one, then at the death of Isabelle to sons Robert and John. Witnesses: Sir John Elmet, parish priest of Reculver, William Hende, Richard Cobbe.