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sold; and wife Rose have the land weir. Land called
Semtestrowes or Stonyland of two acres to be sold, when dau. Isabell
twelve years of age, and the money divided equally between Katherine,
Cislei, Joan, and Isabell, my daus., to their marriage, but if they die
then the land to son Thomas, my wife having the profit of the land until
the age of Isabell. After the death of my wife Rose my lands and tenements
to son Thomas, who if he is not then twenty-one that Thos. Colsoll my
cousin shall have the custody of son Thomas. Witnesses: Thos. Howlyn,
Thos. Colsoll, Henry Webster.
Prob. 14 Dec.
1502.
(Vol. VII., fol. 41.)
80.—JOHN HOKAB.
4 March l504-5. To be buired in the churchyard. To the Light
of St. Mary, 6d.; to the Light called the Trendle,* 6d. Ex’ors: wife
Margerie and Robert Goodhew. After the death of my father that Thomas my
son have the tenement in which I live in the Borough of Hampton at a place
called Edynton, and to his heirs for ever. If my wife is delivered of a
son he is to have six acres of land, two at Seestreet and four at Edynton,
when he is twenty-one. Wife Margery to have the occupying and profits of
the same six acres until the child is of age, but if a maid child then son
Thomas to have the six acres, paying £4 to the girl’s marriage.
Prob
1505.
(Vol. VIII., fol. 64.)
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81.—R0BERT PHELIP.
(See No. 21 in Vol. XXVIII., p. 97.)
20 March 1504-5. To be buried in the churchyard. To the high
altar, 12d. Wife Joan and son John ex’ors. Feoffees: Wm. Ingram, John
Nethersole, Harry Gosbarn. Wife Joan to have and occupy during her life my
tenement with all lands thereto in the parishes of Swalclif, Whitstaple,
and Hakinton; then to son John and his heirs for ever. Also wife Joan have
and occupy for life all my lands in Herne in the Boroughs of Strode and
Hampton, at a place called Grenehill, and at her death then to son William
and
* Trendles or trindles were, originally, coils
or rolls (cf. our word trundle) of wax taper, such as were burned before
some shrine by the friends of a sick man making intercession for his
recovery—" generally made as long as the sick man’s height of
stature, and twisted in the trindle form "—see illustration in
Rocke, Church of Our Fathers (ed. 1896), iii., 344. Later, as in this
Will, "the Light called the Trendle" signified "a kind of
chandelier or series of circular, graduated wheels, attached horizontally
to a pole, and often suspended by a cord from the roof," probably
before the great rood, as at Burmarsh, Chatham and Margate (Test. Cant.,
pp. 40, 79, 211). See Cox, in Curious Church Gleanings, p. 56,
where an entry referring to St. Laurence, Reading, is quoted: "payed
for the tymber trendle for Candlemas Day iiijd." (1539-40).
"Paid for wax bought for the Trendyll hanging in the Church of
Lydd, before the high cross there, 5s. 9d." (1450-1).—Records of
Lydd, p. 148,
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