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Archaeologia Cantiana -  Vol. 30  1914  page 112

HERNE WILLS: ABSTRACTS.—II. By Arthur Hussey

108.—HENRY NOTINGHAM,* now of the parish of
                                          Allhallows in Canterbury.
   27 March 1518. To be buried where he dies. My father gave, by his Will, to me certain lands, tenements, rents, meadows, etc., in the parish of Herne. I give and bequeath all the same to Anne my mother and to her heirs, and. she to be executrix. Witnesses: Master John Coleman, Master Thomas Bele, Sir Richard Knepe, parson of All Hallows, Wm. Warlowe. 
Prob . . .  1518.                               (A, Vol. XIV., 5.)

109.—BENET DUBROSE.
   22 Nov. 1518.. To be buried in the churchyard. Ex’ors: Wife Alice and son Thomas, with Thomas Knoller overseer. To son Thomas, the lease bought of John Marchaunt; and to wife Alice, the profit of all my lands (except my lease) until son Thomas is eighteen, then he to enjoy all my lands, paying 13s. 4d. yearly to my wife Alice. If Thomas die before my wife, then she is to have the same for her life, except one piece in Shelvinge of five rods, and another piece called Tryckys of five rode, which are to be sold, and from the money for a priest to sing in Herne Church for half a year, £3 6s. 8d.; at the death of

Alice all to be sold, and the money for a priest in Herne Church, and to the Light of Our Lady and of St. Katherine, to each 6s. 8d. Witnesses: Sir John Simpson, curate, Thomas Knoller, Michael Nott, Richard Church. 
Prob. 31 January 1518-19.           (Vol. XII., fol. 125.)

110.—RICHARD. EWELL†
   3 Nov. 1519. To be buried in the churchyard. To the Light of Our Lady, 12d. for seven years; and to the Roodloft, 20s. Ex’ors: Wife Cecily and Alexander Hykks. To dau. Joan, my tenement at Yong Street with all its lands, paying yearly 40s. to her mother. That Richard Hikks, son of my dau. Joan, have after the death of Cecily my tenement at Bromefield with all its lands, and to his heirs, but if none, then to .John his brother and his heirs. Dau. Joan to have my tenement at Strode, with an acre of land to it, after the death of Cecily my wife. To Margaret, the dau. of
  * The Notingham family were of Herne, and. there was a William Notingham of Chislet, who died in 1504, being buried in that parish.
  † There was a Nicholas Ewell of Reculver in 1512, who had a son Richard, to whom he left seven acres called Willowes in Herne.

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