Repository Name

Public Record Office

Repository Reference

PROB11/204 folio 424v

 

Probate Court

Prerogative Court of Canterbury

 

William Ballard

Eltham, Kent

 

Will dated

14th November 1642

 

or Administration granted

 

 

Will probated

3rd June 1648


 

In the name of God Amen; I William Ballard of Eltham (parish) in the County of Kent being in perfect health mind and memory (praised be almighty god) revoking all former wills and testaments heretofor made do make and declare this my last will and testament in writing as followeth. Imprimis I commend my soul into the hands of god, and my body to the earth decently to be buried. Item I give devise and bequeath unto Ffrancis White son of my brother John White of Eltham Esqr. All and singular my messuages lands hereditament and hereditaments which where given unto me by my late brother Thomas Ballard deceased in and by his lat will and testament. Item I give unto my sister Joane White fifty pounds to be paid her within a twelve month after my decease. Item I give unto my sister Haynes fifty pounds to be paid within a twelve month after my decease Item I give unto my brother John White fifty pounds to be paid within a twelve month after my decease. Item my will and meaning is that my cousin Ffrancis White shall not < enter? > any of my said lands till he come to the age of twenty and two years only he shall have twenty pounds yearly to bring him up till he come to the age of twenty two years, but my will is that if my cousin Francis White shall not live to the age of one and twenty years then I give the said lands to my cousin Mary White daughter of John White and my cousin Mary Haynes equally to be divided between them. Whereas there is a thousand pounds left in Mr Robert Napper's hand for my cousin Anne Ballard given to me by my said brother Thomas Ballard if in case my cousin Anne shall die before she came to the age of one and twenty years then my will and meaning is that the thousand pounds shall be disposed in this manner following. Item one hundred pounds apiece to my brother Haynes his children And one hundred pounds apiece to my brother John White his children. Item I give unto my brother Abraham Haynes all the books, which are in a trunk at his house. And whereas I have lately purchased a house for one and twenty years of Ffrancis Knollis after the death of his Grandmother for the allowing of which he hath entered into a statute of two thousand pounds my will and meaning is it shall be sold and the money equally divided between my brother John White and my brother Abraham Haynes children. Item my will is that all my wearing apparel unless it be that which I shall have with me when I die shall be sold and given unto the poor of the parish of Woodhurst [Wadhurst], but that I shall have with me when I die I give unto my boy which shall then serve me. Item it is my meaning that none of the lands shall be sold for the payment of these legacies but my executrix shall pay them as she can by felling of the wood and the surplus of the rent. The rest and residue of my goods and chattels and debts whatsoever (after the debts which I shall owe at my death) and my funeral paid and discharged I give unto my beloved sister Mistress Martha Haynes whom I make and ordain sole executrix of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my seal and subscribed my name dated the fourteenth of November in the Reign of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty and two. William Ballard. Signed sealed published and delivered in the presence of Richard Owen Clarke John Freman.

 

Third day of July 1648 probate granted to Abraham Haynes as the executor for Martha Haynes deceased who was named as executrix.