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IN the Name of God Amen I Sr Edward Hales of Tunstall in the Countie of
Kent Knight and Baronett being in the threescore and fifteenth yeare of
my age And in reasonable healthe praised be God for the same And knowing
(though not how soone) that I must dye Doe make this my last Will and
Testament in manner and forme followinge First I bequeathe my Soule to
Allmightie God wholly relyeing on his sure Mercies in Christ Jesus my
Lord and onlie Saviour for a joyfull Resurrection And my Bodye I desire
may be decentlie interred in the Parish Church of Tunstall aforesaid
without any pompe or ceremonies at all no Funerall sermon no vaine
com'emoracon no Invitation Strangers or Friends farr of but such friends
onlie as are neare at hand my honest neighbours of the Parish of
Tunstall aforesaid and servants No Escutcheons or vanity of heraulds
only forty Escutcheons to be provided within a monthe after my decease
and disposed to freinds as my Executor shall thinke fitt Item I give to
the Poore of the
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Parish of Tenterden the sume of twentie pounds and to the poore of the severall
parishes of Tunstall aforesaid Chart next Sutton Vallence and Ebbony the
sume of tenne pounds the Parish to be paied to the Churche Wardens and
other the Overseers of the Poore there respectively within halfe a year
after my decease to be by them or the greater part of them in eache
parrish respectively with the assent of the Maior of Tenterden aforesaid
for that time being for the said parishes of Tenterden and Ebbony and
with the assent of the Incumbent and lawfull Ministere of the other
Parishes of Tunstall and Chart next Sutton Vallence respectivelie
distributed to the honest poore persons there And not to such as
inhabitt or dwell in cottages illegalie erected on wastes or in the high
waies or live idlely by freeboothing begging filching or stealing or
otherwise dissorderlie in theire lives the weeke before Christmas next
after the payment thereof Item I will and give to Anne my loving
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