Joan 1594

Abstract of the Will of Joan Colepeper, 1594
From The Sussex Colepepers

My goods and chattels to my welbeloved son W^m. Steede of Harrietsham Esq to pay my debts. He is executor. Ł100 to purchase land for the poor in Harrietsham and Hollingbourne. To my son (i.e. son in law) William Covert. Executor to have 10 rings made for the following:--

To my sonne W^m. Covert and his wife 2.

To my sonne (i.e. son in law) Richard Colepeper and his wife 2.

To my sonne Thomas Colepeper 1.

To my sonne Edward Patriche and to my daughter Susanna 2.

To my sonne Walter Colepeper 1. (This must mean her stepson, the half brother of Thomas Colepeper above, who in putting up the monument to his parent's memory in Hollingbourne Church, styles himself "unicus iis communis filius" and therefore shows that he was not "slain in Holland" before 1594.)

To my sonne Steed to retain 1 for himself and to deliver 1 other to my daughter his wife. Residue to my son Thomas Colepeper when 24. As to Greenway Court I give it as I am empowered by my husband's will to my son Thomas for a period of 2 years after my decease.

A somewhat different interpretation of this will was given in Fairfax Harrison's Proprietors of the Northern Neck:

Canterbury Consistory, 38: 168.
Will dated March 8, 37 Eliz. [1594]
Proved May 9, 1598.

Joan Colpeper of Hollingbourne, co. Kent, widow. To be bur. in parish church of Hollingborne. Goods to my son William Steed of Harrietsham, Kent, Esqe. he to be exor. Ł100 to purchase Ł25 a year lands for poor of prsh. of Harietsharn & Hollingborne. To my son [in-law] William Covert, Esq. Ł10 for poor of Leedes & Bromfield. To each of my sons & daurs. children 20s. Rings, to my son [in-law] William Covert and his wife, to my son [in-law] Richard Colepeper [i. e., her second husband's younger brother Richard¹¹, who m. 1589, Jane Stede, her daughter by the first bed] & his wife, to my son Thomas Colepeper, to my son [in-law] Edward Partridge & to my daur. Susanna, to my [step] son Walter Colpeper, my son Steed & my daur. his wife. To Joan Cotinge Ł3.6.8. at 25. To my servant Jane Borredge 20s. To good wife Peeter 20s. To rest of servants, 3s. 4d. apiece. Rest of goods to my son Thomas Colpeper at 24. Witns. William Covert, Thomas Culpepper [i. e. Thomas¹¹ of Wilmington].

As to lands, manor of Greenway Court & all my lands in Hollingborne & Harrietsham to my son Thomas Colpeper for 2 years from my death, according to power given me by my husband Francis Colpeper by his will. Witns. William Steede [her son], John Colpeper [i. e., John¹¹ of Wigsell].

Probatum by William Steede, exor.]

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