Chelsfield - Parish Information
Abstract of will from
Chelsfield proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Geoffrey Copus.2005
Thomas
Skeggs of Chelsfield dated 3 October
1716
Abstract of the will of Thomas Skeggs the elder of
Chelsfield dated 3 October 1716.
I give to the poor people of Chelsfield £5; to the poor of
Cudham and Shoreham 50s. each parish; to the poor of Horton Kirby and
Sutton at Hone 40s. each parish, to be paid to the Churchwardens of
these parishes and to be distributed at their discretion.
I give to my wife Sarah Skeggs £200. To my kinswoman
Elizabeth Skeggs £20. To my kinsman Valentine Skeggs the elder £20. To
Thomas Skeggs, eldest son of the said Valentine Skeggs, £20. To every
other of the children of the said Valentine Skeggs £20 each. To my
kinsman Giles Skeggs £20 and to his two children Thomas and Anne Skeggs
£20 each.
To my kinswoman Elizabeth Hughes widow an annuity of £10
out of my Manor of Northsted, my Mansion House of Northsted and the
lands and tenements thereto belonging now in my own occupation in
Chelsfield and Cudham, to be paid at the usual Quarter days at or in my
said Capital Messuage of Northsted. Elizabeth is to have liberty to
enter and distrain upon the said premises if the annuity remain unpaid.
To Thomas Moor a barber my old friend for the particular
love I have for him and in regard of his great poverty I leave an
annuity of £10.8s.0d. at the rate of 16s. every four weeks to be paid
at Northsted, he also to have liberty to distrain.
To Elizabeth wife of John Budgin an annuity of £5 at
the rate of 8s. every 4 weeks at Northsted, she also to have liberty to
distrain.
To Paul Pattison, a poor boy now living with me, £20
towards putting him out apprentice.
I give the residue of my personal estate to my nephew
Thomas Skeggs the younger of Chelsfield, and I make him my Executor.
Thomas Skeggs witnesses Henry Ashly [?] Richard Whiffen
Charles Martyn Thomas Osborne.
Proved 1 April 1717 by Thomas Skeggs the nephew by the father and next
of kin.
[PCC will PROB11/557]
Transcribed by Geoffrey
Copus