Will of: Robert Sakett of St Peter in Thanet, Kent.
Date: 22 November 1498.
Proved: Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, 7 January 1498/99.
Source: Kent Archives Office, PRC 17-7-78.
Beneficiaries:
Wife Joan, half lands & tenement while unmarried.
Son Richard, lands & tenement.
Sons Robert & John.
Daughters Alice [Walter?], Katherine & Helen.
Transcript:
[Latin section]
"In die nomine Amen xxij die Novembris Anno Dm Millimo CCCClxxxxviij Ego Robtus Sakett de pochia Sancti petre in insula de Thaneto compos mentes et sane memorie condo testm mea in hunc modu Inprimis do et lego aidm mea Deo omnipotenti beate marie [ac] [onnbq] sancte Corpus p mea sepulcendes in cimiterio
pirochal sancti petri
Itm lego sumo altari dicta
oblite xijd Itm lego [cinlibe
cunis su frat
in dradeolia] iiijd Itm lego [cinlibet confiliolores meo et] iiijd Itm lego Alice [Walter?] filie meo octo oves [macoret] Itm lego Katerine filio meo ij qrteria [frumints] Itm lego Johanne ux meo Elene filio meo ij qrt [frumints] Itm lego Johanne ux meo [
] vacca sex oves [
tres] qrtres [frumate
] [ordri] Itm lego [ad opus
] iijs iiijd Itm lego [ad opus calie
] in villa Sandwici iijs iiijd [Residim veco
] [legatore post debita et legata meo psolute] do et lego Rbo et Johann filijs meis [ut ipi
ordinet et disponet p salute aie mea put] [
videbit
] [Et eosdem
] [
compleant codessictii] "
[Translation of Latin section]
"In the name of God Amen the 22nd day of November in the year of our Lord 1498 I Robert Sakett of the parish of St Peter in the Isle of Thanet of sound mind and good memory write my testament in this manner First I give and leave my soul to God Almighty blessed Mary [ac] [all?] saints my body to be buried in the graveyard
parish of St Peter
Item I leave a sum to the altar of the said
forgotten 12d Item I leave [cinlibe
cunis su frat
in dradeolia] 4d Item I leave [cinlibet confiliolores meo et] 4d Item I leave Alice [Walter?] my daughter 8 sheep [macoret] Item I leave Katherine my daughter 2 quarters [of grain?] Item I leave Joan my wife Helen my daughter 2 quarters [of grain?] Item I leave Joan my wife [
] cows six sheep [
three] quarters [of grain?
] [ordri] Item I leave [ad opus
] 3s 4d Item I leave [ad opus calie
] in the town of Sandwich 3s 4d [Residim veco
] [legatore post debita et legata meo psolute] I give and leave to Robert and John my sons [ut ipi
ordinet et disponet p salute aie mea put] [
videbit
] [Et eosdem
] [
compleant codessictii]"
[English section]
"This is the last will of me the said Robert Sakett made the day and yere above written and the xiiij yere of the reign of our severeign lord king herry the vijth [ ] of and uppon all my landes and tenementes wth thapprtennces In which landes & ten-t Robert Samwell and Edward [Hubered?] enfeffed First I will my said feoffees shall suffer the said Johanne my wife to have hold and occupie half of my landes and ten-t as long as she is sole woman [kepyng] half reparac-on of my seid ten-t and paye half rent of the seid ten-t and landes unto the lord of the fee enduring her occupying Also I will my seid feoffees anone after my decesse shall enfeoffe the seid Richard my son of and in all my foreseid landes and Ten- wt thapprtennce havyng and holdyng to hym to hys heires and assignes forev-more Under this condic-on that the seid Richard make or do make a sufficie-t [sicurtie] to pay or for to pay to thaforseid John my son v li of lawfull money of England in v ye-r to be payed that is to say every yere of the seid v yere xx & one aftre a [nothed] to the sume of v li be fully content And the first day of payment shalle [
] of the yer aftre my xij monyth And that wittnesseth Sir Hugh Hogh vicar of the seid parysshe Simon [
olney] Robert Sammett Thoms Spracking Willia- Hobbett and others [moo] Itm I bequethe to iche of my feoffeis for the-r labo-r xijd"
"Probatum vij die Januarij Anno dm- millimo CCCCmo nongusimo octano [
] est admistracio [
]"