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Chelsfield Wills - Part 1  Abstracts of will from Chelsfield proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Anthony Petley of Chelsfield dated 11 July 1655

Abstract of the will of Anthony Petley of Chelsfield yeoman dated 11 July 1655.
   My body to be decently interred in the parish church of Chelsfield near the corpse of my deceased father. I leave to the poor of Chelsfield 40s. to be distributed by my brother Robert Petley on the day of my burial.
   " I give fourty shillings towards the repair of the Vestry and Chancell of the said parish of Chelsfeild the said fourty shillings to be imployed about laying a peece of timber mending the guttur or any other work needful to be don between the two roofes of the said Vestry and Chancell and if ther be any overplus of the said forty shillings my will is that the same be imployed to the reparacion only of the Vestry aforesaid. "
   I leave £10 to my nephew Robert Smith and £10 to be divided equally between his two sisters, my nieces Mary and Elizabeth Smith.
   To my servant men John Jackson and George Wakelyn 10s. each.
   To my servant maid Alice Nott 40s.
   To my niece Sarah Acourt alias Gardiner £5.
   I leave to my brother Robert Petley and his heirs for ever all the house and lands wherein my wife is estated by Jointure, to be enjoyed by him and his heirs for ever, after her death.
   I leave to my wife the rent of the house and land in the occupation of Thomas Death of Orpington and also the rents of my lands in the occupation of John Gilpin of Orpington and my meadow in St. Mary Cray containing 2 acres, all the rents of which said premises she is to enjoy for life.
    After her death my brother Robert Petley and his heirs for ever shall have the fee simple of the said houses and lands.
   I leave all residue of my personal estate to my wife Anne whom I make my Executrix.
   Witnesses Mary X Petley Robert Milles Mary Milles.  Proved 21 June 1656 by Anne Petley widow the relict.
[ PCC will PROB 11 / 256 - but that is illegible in places and I took the above details from the original will, reference PROB 10 / 832. The seal on the will does not show the Petley arms, but a sheaf of arrows, tied.]

Transcribed by Geoffrey Copus 

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