Darell, Anne (Horne) of Little Chart, Kent, England
will dated 1622
probate 1624

will of Anne (Horne) Darell dated 1622
In the name of God, Amen
The twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord 1622. I Anne Darrell of Little Chart in the county of Kent widow, late wife of John Darell of Calehill in the said County, Esquire, deceased. Being not altogether in sound and perfect health but of good and perfect memory praise be to God true fount of wisdom, and make this my last will and testament in manner and form following. First and principally, I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God my creator and of Jesus Christ my only Saviour believing most precious death and passion of my said Saviour. And my bones to be decently buried in the parish church of Little Chart aforesaid.
Item. I will unto the poor of the parish of Little Chart three shillings and four pence, to be distributed to them according to the discretion of my executors hereafter named within one month after my decease.
Item. To my sister Elizabeth and my sister Hayman, I give to either of them a Spr-ryal.
Item. To my son Sir Robert Darell, Knight I give my biggest salt cellars of silver and to go with them the salt cellar commonly used with my 12 ship? silver spoons and my best brass candlestick that came from Waltham and the two gallipots and the Dornips hanging in my Sister hales closet and the Dornips hanging in my own chamber with the bedclothes in my chamber hereafter thereof with all such silver of all sorts as belongeth to me and in ___.
Item. My best gown being of taffeta and my best velvet ___ I give to my daughter the lady Darell wife of my son Sir Robert Darell.
Item. To my son George Darell I give my porringer of silver in ___ with the ____ belonging to my chamber and my tankard that are given me by the ___ and their family in the gallery.
Item. To my son James I give my silver cup which is in my chamber and the rings he gave me upon his marriage.
Item. To his wife I give a ring of 20s with a death's head in remembrance of me.
Item. To my daughter Sedley I give my best cloak lined with ___.
Item. To her I give my best down bed and bolsters and my best coverlet.
Item. To my daughter Tucker I give my taffeta gown doublet?, my taffeta cloak lined with fur and my best petticoat and my second best bed and coverlet and a pair of my best blankets and my coverlet lined with camus? and my white? honepot? with a silver cover.
Item. To my son Nathaniel I forgive the ten pounds that he oweth me and to him I give all such linen and woollen as I furnished him with togeher with the bed.
Item. To my son Robert Darell the younger, I forgive the fifteen pounds I lent him and give unto him my third best bed and bolster and pillow and the household coverlet of green and red and three pairs of household sheets and two pairs of coarse pillowcases.
Item. To my daughter Champney I give the worst of my featherbeds with the long pillow of fustian and a pillow of linen and one homemade coverlet of red and yellow and to her I give all my weaving and linen, saving such as shall be more particularly disposed of by me under my hand to any other person or persons.
Item. All other my linen of whatsoever colour not formerly given under this my will and which shall not be disposed of by me to any person or persons or to pass by a note under my hand, I will and bequeath unto my daughter Sedley, my daughter Tucker and my daughter Champneys, equally to be divided between them. as also all ot6her my brass and pewter not formerly given by this my will. And whatever shall not yet particularly disposed of to any of the person or persons by note under my hand.
Item. To my son Henry I forgive him 20 marks I formerly lent him, and to him I give such linen and woolen and I do likewise unto him when he went into the East Indies. And I further give unto him the bed in Raphe Matthew? chamber with teh bolster in chamber of Clark? and which has a pillow.
Item. To my son George I forgive the 20 marks I lent him when he was last in England and whenever I lent him more towards the procurement of his place as Lieutenant in the Low Countries thirty pounds. I give the same unto him.
Item. To my son Nicholas in regards that I have formerly given him my ring with the garter (which I esteemed worth 20 marks) I give him nothing by this my will. But my will and meaning is that the ring he gave me upon his marriage shall return unto him ad that the rings given me by my several sons married, shall return to them again.
Item. To my grandchild William Godston? I give my gilt salt cellar.
Item. To my son George Tucker and to Mary Tucker I give forty shillings apiece and to Martha Tucker I give 40s.
Item. To my son Nicholas Darell, his wife, and to my son Robert Darell's wife I give 20s apiece.
Item. I give to Lady Taylor? and to Mistress Dorothy Tufton I give to both of them a ring with a death's head of 20s apiece.
Item. To Mistress Fothersby, I give 20s to buy her a ring.
Item. To goodwife Weason and Raphe Mathew, my old servants I give 10s apiece.
Item. To my new servant Jane Wilhew? I give 20s in money.
Item. To all my sons, daughters and servants, men and maids that shall have served ___ half a year before 1 year's time of my death I give 2s 6d apiece.
And of this my lst will and testament I constitute and appoint my sons Sir Robert Darell and John Darell, my executors to whom I give the residue of my personal estate, my debts, legacies, charges of furnishing probate of my will and funeral expenses being discharged Anne Darell testator subscribed and published in the presence of Anne Darell, Mary Tucker, Ralfe Matthew.
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