Medieval and Tudor Kent wills of the Shoreham Deanery, part 6

The following list of mediaeval wills for the Shoreham Deanery, which was a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was compiled by Leland L. Duncan and recorded in six quarto volumes around 1895.

The wills at the time of his writing were all that remained prior to 1600 in the Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in the Lambeth Palace Registers.

The 34 parishes which made up the Shoreham Deanery were as follows:- Bexley, Brasted, Chevening, Chiddingstone, Crayford or Eard, St. Mary Cray, Darenth, Downe, Eynsford, East Farleigh, Farningham, Gillingham, The Isle of Grain, Halstead, Hayes, Hever, Hunton, Ifield, Ightham, Keston, Knockholt, Lydsing, East Malling, Meopham, Northfleet, Orpington, Otford, East Peckham, Penshurst, Sevenoaks, Shoreham, Stansted, Sundridge, and Wrotham.

Transcriptions in quarto exercise books held at the Kent Archaeological Society's Library in Maidstone. Examined by me, Zena Bamping, in March 2001, who made the following list of wills extracted by Mr Duncan. The originals are written in pencil and seem to be almost complete transcriptions with a few abbreviations, e.g. P for Parish.

Index of Notebooks

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

Book 5

Book 6

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Index of Wills

Book 6

Register	Testator	Date of Will	Date of Probate	Lands in Kent or connection with Kent	Page No.
	John HACCHE [cont]				661a
13 Spert	William BARLEY clerk, parson of Blysworth	1541 Nov 10	1542 Nov 22	to be buried in Ightham	661b
25 Spert	John A DOWNE of Beltring, East Peckham	1542 Jul 24	1543 Oct	Brenchley, East Peckham, Tudeley, Wateringbury, Yalding	662
13 Spert	Richard ADENE of Meopham, gent.	1542 Jul 3	1542 Nov 18	Luddesdown, Meopham	667
29 Alen	John HOLTE	1546 Nov 6	1546 Feb 25	?Brasted	670
20 Alen	Richard ASTALL parson of Ightham	1546 Aug 13	1546 Nov 13	to be buried Ightham church	671
2 Alen	John POTKIN gent.	1543 Apr 8	1545 Jan 15	Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks Weald (Codicil 29 Aug 1546 [sic]: Sevenoaks School)	674
36 Populwell	John BARBAR, clerk	---	1549 Jul 20	Died at Wrotham (see Act Book) To be buryed where it shall please God to call me.	680
3 Populwell	William HARMAN of Crayford esquire	1547 Jan 9	1547 Feb 21	Lands in Kent	681
31 Powell	Christopher BLOOER of Wrotham gent.	1551 Jul 29	1552 Nov 19	Bredhurst, Hartlip, Rainham, Upchurch	682
20 Coode	Oliver GODFRAYE parson of Penshurst	1550 May 17	1550 Sep 4	Penshurst	686
4 Coode	John SMYTH of West Street in Cliffe	1548 May 21	1549 Feb 5	Cliffe	689
9 Coode	Mathewe WHITE of Smithfield, London	1546 May 2	1550 Apr 23	Crayford church	692
13 Coode	Nicholas CLYFFORDE of Northfleet esquire	1546 Mar 31	1550 May 13	Bobbing, Iwade, Kemsey, Upchurch churches of Ash, Iwade, Northfleet	693
24 Tashe	William WATER the elder of Chiddingstone yeoman	1552 Jan 10	1553 Jan 11	Chiddingstone	694
18 Tashe	William STUBBES of Northfleet yeoman	1553 Jul 15	1553 Oct 14	Gravesend, Northfleet	697
12 More	John HAYNES citizen & Tallow chandler & Freeman of London	1554 Nov 18	1554 Nov 27	Bexley	700
33 More	William BUTCHIN of Penshurst yeoman	1552 Dec 17	1555 Apr 22	---	702
4 More	John SNOWDE of Hunton husbandman	1551 Aug 24	1554 Jul 3	Hunton	703
12 More	Thomas TORKE	---	1554 Nov 21	East Malling	705
4 More	Richard MYLLES of Gillingham yeoman	1553 Nov 30	1554 Jul 18	Gillingham	707
27 More	John PYRRYE of Gillingham	1555 Mar 26	1555 Jun 14	Gillingham	710
27 Wrastley	Stephen DUMMERIGHT of Brasted, brasier	1557	1557 Aug 8	Brasted	715
27 Wrastley	Nicholas WEKES	1557 Jul 27	1557 Aug 11	Hever	717
4 Wrastley	John STEVENSON of Penshurst	1556 Jul 27	1556 Feb 2	---	718
37 Noodes	Bridget WILLOWGHBY of Chiddingstone, widow	1558 Aug 11	1558 Aug 18	Chevening, Chiddingstone, Hever, Leigh, Penshurst, Sundridge	719
10 Noodes	John SCOTTE of Upton Severne Worcs. yeoman	1557 Nov 18	1557 Feb 25	Northfleet	726
1 Noodes	Edward FRENTE of Gillingham yeoman	1556 Dec 20	1557 Jan 15	Cliffe, Dartford, Gillingham	728
28 Welles	Alice MARSHALL			[see old note booke III p.28]	735a
38 Welles	William CLEVE of Lewes Sussex	1558 Oct 19	1558 Feb 14	East Farleigh	735b
49 Welles	John SELYARD of Brasted, gent	1558 Feb 20	1558 Mar 9	Brasted, Chiddingstone, Cobham, Edenbridge, Hever, Leigh, Penshurst, Tonbridge, Westerham	739
50 Welles	Ambrose WOOLLEY of Lambeth esquire	1557 Jul 18	1559 Mar 31	Bexley	742
7 Chaynay	Hugh WESTON priest	1558 Nov 26	1559 Apr 14	Friars of Greenwich; to father Warner ancar of Canterbury	746
23 Chaynay	Robert CRANEWELL of Sudbury Suffolk, gent.	1556 Nov 8	1559 Jun 2	Chiddingstone, Hever, Sundridge	749
38 Chaynay	William CONSTABLE als GRYFFYNE	---	1559 Aug 12	to be buried in Sevenoaks church	752
24 Bennett	Sir John DARELL	---	1509 Feb 4	Faversham, Luddenham, Preston beside Faversham, Kingsdown beside Sittingbourne, Throwley, Westwell	755
23 Bennett	William KEVILL citizen and Goldsmith of London	1509 Aug 9	1509 Jan 18	---	760