Richard BROCKMAN

PRC 17/74/5

Dated 5 February 1671, 24 Charles II

Richard Brockman the elder of Whitfield, Kent yeoman

In health, soul to God and body to earth.

To wife Mary an annuity or yearly rent charge of £16

out of all my lands in Whitfield, except three pieces

of land about 13 acres to be sold, equally at four

times in the year with power of distraint, which

annuity was settled on my said wife before marriage by

deed. To wife Mary, she keeping herself unmarried, the

old parlour of my dwelling house, to brew and bake in

the kitchen, my son and executor finding the straw to

brew and bake. Wife to have one half of household

stuff to enjoy during her widowhood, also 100 ashen

faggots yearly during her widowhood to be brought home

by my executor and cut from trees growing on my lands.

Also to her one of my best cows of her own choice to

be kept by my executor winter and summer with his

cattle for 20s a year which she is to pay my executor.

If she remarry to have no benefit of this will except

the annuity.

To John Kingsmill and Margaret his wife my daughter £5

To son Christopher Brockman £40 which with the sixty

pounds I owe him on bond makes 100£.

To son William Brockman £5

To son Richard Brockman 10s.

Executor son Matthew Brockman to have Chalke close 6

acres, Parsonage close 4 acres and Pynam Garden 3

acres to sell to pay debts and legacies. Also to

Matthew rest and residue of real and personal

property.

Friend William Stratford the elder of Dover gentleman

to be overseer and 40s.

Wit: William Stratfold (sic)

To my daughter Christian Brockman £50

Confirmed 24 October 1673 witness William Stratfold,

Thomas Stratfold

PROBATE 16 October 1673 granted to Matthew Brockman

son and executor.

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