Chelsfield - Parish Information
Abstract of will from
Chelsfield proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Geoffrey Copus.2005
Anthony
Petley of Chelsfield dated 11 July
1655
Abstract of the will of Anthony Petley of Chelsfield
yeoman dated 11 July 1655.
My body to be decently interred in the parish church of
Chelsfield near the corpse of my deceased father. I leave to the poor of
Chelsfield 40s. to be distributed by my brother Robert Petley on the day
of my burial.
" I give fourty shillings towards the repair of the
Vestry and Chancell of the said parish of Chelsfeild the said fourty
shillings to be imployed about laying a peece of timber mending the
guttur or any other work needful to be don between the two roofes of the
said Vestry and Chancell and if ther be any overplus of the said forty
shillings my will is that the same be imployed to the reparacion only of
the Vestry aforesaid. "
I leave £10 to my nephew Robert Smith and £10 to be
divided equally between his two sisters, my nieces Mary and Elizabeth
Smith.
To my servant men John Jackson and George Wakelyn 10s.
each.
To my servant maid Alice Nott 40s.
To my niece Sarah Acourt alias Gardiner £5.
I leave to my brother Robert Petley and his heirs for ever
all the house and lands wherein my wife is estated by Jointure, to be
enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever, after her death.
I leave to my wife the rent of the house and land in the
occupation of Thomas Death of Orpington and also the rents of my lands
in the occupation of John Gilpin of Orpington and my meadow in St. Mary
Cray containing 2 acres, all the rents of which said premises she is to
enjoy for life.
After her death my brother Robert Petley and his
heirs for ever shall have the fee simple of the said houses and lands.
I leave all residue of my personal estate to my wife Anne
whom I make my Executrix.
Witnesses Mary X Petley Robert Milles Mary Milles.
Proved 21 June 1656 by Anne Petley widow the relict.
[ PCC will PROB 11 / 256 - but that is illegible in places and I took
the above details from the original will, reference PROB 10 / 832. The
seal on the will does not show the Petley arms, but a sheaf of arrows,
tied.]
Transcribed by Geoffrey
Copus